So Elisha left the oxen, ran after Elijah, and said, “Please let me kiss my father and mother goodbye, and then I will follow you.” “Go on back,” Elijah replied, “for what have I done to you?”
Another of His disciples requested, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.”
Still another said, “I will follow You, Lord; but first let me bid farewell to my family.”
They all wept openly as they embraced Paul and kissed him.
“Look,” Peter replied, “we have left everything to follow You. What then will there be for us?”
As Jesus went on from there, He saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax booth. “Follow Me,” He told him, and Matthew
And at once they left their nets and followed Him.
and immediately they left the boat and their father and followed Him.