And as they went on the way, a certain scribe said unto him, “I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest.”

And Jesus said unto him, “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the heaven have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.”

And he said unto another, “Follow me.”

But he said, “Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.”

But he said unto him, “Leave the dead to bury their own dead; but go thou and publish abroad the kingdom of God.”

And another also said, “I will follow thee, Lord; but first suffer me to bid farewell to them that are at my house.”

But Jesus said unto him, “No man, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.”

IN JERUSALEM—­THE ATTEMPT TO STONE HIM

JESUS AT THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES.

Then went he up unto the feast, not publicly, but as it were in secret.  The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, “Where is he?” And there was much murmuring among the multitudes concerning him:  some said, “He is a good man;” others said, “Not so, but he leadeth the multitude astray.”  Yet no man spake openly of him for fear of the Jews.

But when it was now the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught.  The Jews therefore marvelled, saying, “How knoweth this man letters, having never learned?”

Jesus therefore answered them, and said, “My teaching is not mine, but his that sent me.  If any man willeth to do his will, he shall know of the teaching, whether it is of God, or whether I speak from myself.  He that speaketh from himself seeketh his own glory:  but he that seeketh the glory of him that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.  Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you doeth the law?  Why seek ye to kill me?”

The multitude answered, “Thou hast a demon:  who seeketh to kill thee?”

Jesus answered and said unto them, “I did one work, and ye all marvel because thereof.  Moses hath given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers); and on the sabbath ye circumcise a man.  If a man receiveth circumcision on the sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken; are ye wroth with me, because I made a man every whit whole on the sabbath?  Judge not according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.”

Some therefore of them of Jerusalem said, “Is not this he whom they seek to kill?  And lo, he speaketh openly, and they say nothing unto him.  Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is the Christ?  Howbeit we know this man whence he is; but when the Christ cometh, no one knoweth whence he is.”

Jesus therefore cried in the temple, teaching and saying, “Ye both know me, and know whence I am; and I am not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom ye know not.  I know him:  because I am from him, and he sent me.”