July 2, 2012, Gospel

8:18	Then Jesus, seeing the great crowds encircling him, gave orders to go across the sea.
8:19	And one scribe, approaching, said to him, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you will go.”
8:20	And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have dens, and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of man has nowhere to rest his head.”
8:21	Then another of his disciples said to him, “Lord, permit me first to go and bury my father.”
8:22	But Jesus said to him, “Follow me, and allow the dead to bury their dead.”

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