Matthew 8:21
And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.
KJV
ἕτερος δὲ τῶν μαθητῶν εἶπεν αὐτῷ, κύριε, ἐπίτρεψόν μοι πρῶτον ἀπελθεῖν καὶ θάψαι τὸν πατέρα μου.
Greek NT
Alius autem de discipulis ejus ait illi : Domine, permitte me primum ire, et sepelire patrem meum.
Vulgate
And another of the disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.
ASV
And another of his disciples said to him: Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
14 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
θάπτω
thapto
verb · 11×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
κύριος
kurios
noun · 717×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
μαθητής
mathetes
noun · 261×
πατήρ
pater
noun · 412×
πρῶτον
proton
adverb · 57×
ἀπέρχομαι
aperchomai
verb · 117×
ἐγώ
ego
pronoun · 1720×
ἐπιτρέπω
epitrepo
verb · 18×
ἕτερος
eteros
adjective · 99×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
notable
SBLGNT: μαθητῶν | WH/Treg: μαθητῶν | NIV/RP: + αὐτοῦ
- μαθητῶν — SBLGNT
- μαθητῶν — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles
- + αὐτοῦ — Reader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Homilies on Matthew · 3 passages
1. Wherefore does He depart? Again instructing us not to go to meet temptations, but to give place and withdraw ourselves. For it is no reproach, the not casting one's self into danger, but the failing to stand manfully when fallen into it. To teach us this accordingly, and to soothe the envy of the Jews, He retires to Capernaum; at once fulfilling the prophecy, and making hast…
2. When the evening had come, they brought unto Him many that were possessed with devils: and He cast out the spirits from them with a word, and healed all that were sick: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Prophet Esaias, that He took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses. Do you see the multitude, by this time growing in faith? For not even when the time pr…
2. Do you see how He prophesies even the place where He was to be slain. And they cast Him out, and slew Him. And Luke indeed says, that He declared what these men should suffer; and they said, God forbid; and He added the testimony [of Scripture]. For He beheld them, and said, What is it then that is written? The stone which the builders rejected, the same has become the head …
Cross-references
- 1Kgs 19:20 — And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee. And he said unto him, Go back again: for what have I done to thee?
- 1Kgs 19:20 — And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee. And he said unto him, Go back again: for what have I done to thee?
- Deut 33:9 — Who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children: for they have observed thy word, and kept thy covenant.
- Hag 1:2 — Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the LORD’s house should be built.
- Lev 21:11 — Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;
- Luke 9:59 — And he said unto another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.
- Luke 9:59 — And he said unto another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.
- Mark 1:20 — And straightway he called them: and they left their father Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants, and went after him.
- Matt 19:29 — And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting
- Matt 19:29 — And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting
- Num 6:6 — All the days that he separateth himself unto the LORD he shall come at no dead body.