Luke 9:51-62

51Now when the time was approaching for Him to be taken up [to heaven], He was determined to go to Jerusalem [to fulfill His purpose].

52He sent messengers on ahead of Him, and they went into a Samaritan village to make arrangements for Him;

53but the people would not welcome Him, because He was traveling toward Jerusalem.

54When His disciples James and John saw this, they said, “Lord, do You want us to command fire to come down from heaven and destroy them?”

55But He turned and rebuked them [and He said, “You do not know what kind of spirit you are;

56for the Son of Man did not come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them.”] And they journeyed on to another village.

57As they were going along the road, someone said to Him, “I will follow You wherever You go.”

58And Jesus told him, “Foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay His head.”

59He said to another, “Follow Me [accepting Me as Master and Teacher].” But he said, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.”

60But He said to him, “Allow the [spiritually] dead to bury their own dead; but as for you, go and spread the news about the kingdom of God.”

61Another also said, “I will follow You, Lord [as Your disciple]; but first let me say goodbye to those at my home.”

62But Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back [to the things left behind] is fit for the kingdom of God.”