The Cost of Following Jesus

Matthew 8

¹⁸ Now _b when Jesus saw a crowd around him, _c he gave orders to go over to the other side. ¹⁹ _d And a scribe came up and said to him, "Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go." ²⁰ And Jesus said to him, "Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head." ²¹ Another of the disciples said to him, "Lord, let me first go and bury my father." ²² And Jesus said to him, "Follow me, and leave _e the dead to bury their own dead."

1. Cross References
   Matthew 14:22
   Immediately he made the disciples get into the boat and go before him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowds.
   John 6:15 - 17
   Perceiving then that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, Jesus withdrew again to the mountain by himself.
   
2. Cross References
   Mark 4:35
   On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, "Let us go across to the other side.
   Luke 8:22
   One day he got into a boat with his disciples, and he said to them, "Let us go across to the other side of the lake." So they set out.
   
3. Cross References
   Matthew 8:19 - 22
   And a scribe came up and said to him, "Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.
   Luke 9:57 - 60
   As they were going along the road, someone said to him, "I will follow you wherever you go.
   
4. Cross References
   Matthew 8:19 - 22
   And a scribe came up and said to him, "Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.
   Luke 9:57 - 62
   As they were going along the road, someone said to him, "I will follow you wherever you go.
   
5. Cross References
   John 5:25
   Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.