²⁰ and he forsaketh the oxen, and runneth after Elijah, and saith, `Let me give a kiss, I pray thee, to my father and to my mother, and I go after thee.' And he saith to him, `Go, turn back, for what have I done to thee?'

²¹ And another of his disciples said to him, `Sir, permit me first to depart and to bury my father;'

²² and Jesus said to him, `Follow me, and suffer the dead to bury their own dead.'

⁶¹ And another also said, `I will follow thee, sir, but first permit me to take leave of those in my house;'

⁶² and Jesus said unto him, `No one having put his hand on a plough, and looking back, is fit for the reign of God.'

³⁷ and there came a great weeping to all, and having fallen upon the neck of Paul, they were kissing him,

²⁰ and they, immediately, having left the nets, did follow him.

²² and they, immediately, having left the boat and their father, did follow him.

⁹ And Jesus passing by thence, saw a man sitting at the tax-office, named Matthew, and saith to him, `Be following me,' and he, having risen, did follow him.

²⁷ Then Peter answering said to him, `Lo, we did leave all, and follow thee, what then shall we have?'