Verse Lens · Expanded explanation
Luke 9:60 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 60. 60Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God.
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Quick Meaning
Luke 9:60 presses kingdom proclamation urgently without becoming a universal ban on funerals.
Read It With
- Luke 9:57–9:62
Read Luke 9:60 with 9:57–9:62. In isolation, this contribution—presses kingdom proclamation urgently without becoming a universal ban on funerals—can be detached from its speaker, audience, scene or teaching sequence, and outcome. The complete unit establishes: Three exchanges expose homelessness, burial obligation, and family farewell as Jesus presses the urgency and undivided direction of kingdom proclamation.
Follow the Context
- Identify the actors, setting, and initiating speech or action in Luke 9:57–9:62.
- Three exchanges expose homelessness, burial obligation, and family farewell as Jesus presses the urgency and undivided direction of kingdom proclamation.
- Hold this material interpretive limit in view: These hard sayings use prophetic and wisdom rhetoric; they do not disclose each person's final response or cancel ordinary burial and family duties in every case.
What This Verse Is Not Saying
This verse does not detach its specific contribution—presses kingdom proclamation urgently without becoming a universal ban on funerals—from the complete unit or override the unit's explicit boundary: The demands do not authorize cultic isolation, neglect of funerals or dependents, homelessness imposed by leaders, or contempt for grief.
What Remains True
Luke 9:60 presses kingdom proclamation urgently without becoming a universal ban on funerals. Read inside Luke 9:57–9:62, this contribution supports the unit's proportionate truth: Three exchanges expose homelessness, burial obligation, and family farewell as Jesus presses the urgency and undivided direction of kingdom proclamation. Its use remains accountable to affected people and the unit's explicit boundary.
How It Can Shape Life
- Luke 9:60 presses kingdom proclamation urgently without becoming a universal ban on funerals. Its faithful response is proportionate to that role: Count discipleship's real cost and make honest arrangements for housing, grief, family duties, and dependents; urgency is not permission for coercion or neglect.
Teach It Back
Explain Luke 9:60's specific contribution to Luke 9:57–9:62: presses kingdom proclamation urgently without becoming a universal ban on funerals. Include the preceding and following movement, one source-controlled uncertainty, one affected person or group, and what the verse does not authorize.
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Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Luke 9:57–9:62 — Would-Be Followers Face Urgency and CostSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? probable
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and coverage.
Exact location: Luke 9:57–9:62, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗Greek textual evidence
The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition
Michael W. Holmes, editor; Society of Biblical Literature and Logos
Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, 2010
Supports: Greek wording and sentence relations; the edition is not treated as a complete apparatus.
Exact location: Faithlife SBLGNT official repository, data/sblgnt/text/Luke.txt, 9:57–9:62
Open the Luke Greek text file ↗open translation and translator notes
NET Bible First Edition Notes: Luke
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Verse-level translation, syntax, KJV-language clarification, historical notes, Synoptic parallels, and textual alternatives.
Exact location: NET Bible First Edition Luke PDF, exact tn/tc/sn entries attached to Luke 9:57–9:62
Open source ↗