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the verse following he refuses one of his followers per-
mission to go and bury his father! You will find not a
single saint, father, or commentator to have troubled his
head or the faculty of reasoning in order to discover the
very simple sense embodied in the refusal of Jesus to allow
that learned Scribe to follow him. If he had place for
thirteen heads he could certainly provide a place for the
fourteenth too. Besides, he could have registered him
among the seventy adherents he had (2). The Scribe in
question was not an ignorant fisherman like the sons of
Zebedee and of Jonah; he was a scholar and a practiced
lawyer. There is no reason to suspect his sincerity; he was
led to believe that Jesus was the predicted Messiah, the Son
of Man, who at any moment might summon his heavenly
legions and mount upon the throne of his ancestor David.
Jesus perceived the erroneous notion of the Scribe,
mission to go and bury his father! You will find not a
single saint, father, or commentator to have troubled his
head or the faculty of reasoning in order to discover the
very simple sense embodied in the refusal of Jesus to allow
that learned Scribe to follow him. If he had place for
thirteen heads he could certainly provide a place for the
fourteenth too. Besides, he could have registered him
among the seventy adherents he had (2). The Scribe in
question was not an ignorant fisherman like the sons of
Zebedee and of Jonah; he was a scholar and a practiced
lawyer. There is no reason to suspect his sincerity; he was
led to believe that Jesus was the predicted Messiah, the Son
of Man, who at any moment might summon his heavenly
legions and mount upon the throne of his ancestor David.
Jesus perceived the erroneous notion of the Scribe,