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Luke 9:60

Luke 9:60
Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God.

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Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Luke 9:57-62

We have here an account of three several persons that offered themselves to follow Christ, and the answers that Christ gave to each of them. The two former we had an account of in Mat 19:21.

I. Here…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Let the dead bury their dead i.e. let the spirituallydead (Eph 2:1; Joh 5:24-25) bury their physically dead. "Amandus est generator, sed praeponendus est Creator," Aug. The general lesson is that of…