21 And another of the disciples[a] said to him, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.” 22 But Jesus said to him, “Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead!”

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23 And as[b] he got into the boat, his disciples followed him.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 8:21 Some manuscripts have “of his disciples”
  2. Matthew 8:23 Here “as” is supplied as a component of the participle (“got”) which is understood as temporal