October 3, 2012, Gospel

9:57	And it happened that, as they were walking along the way, someone said to him, “I will follow you, wherever you will go.”
9:58	Jesus said to him: “Foxes have dens, and the birds of the air have nests. But the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head.”
9:59	Then he said to another, “Follow me.” But he said, “Lord, permit me first to go and bury my father.”
9:60	And Jesus said to him: “Let the dead bury their dead. But you go and announce the kingdom of God.”
9:61	And another said: “I will follow you, Lord. But permit me first to explain this to those of my house.”
9:62	Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to the plow, and then looks back, is fit for the kingdom of God.”

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