Matthew 8:18 ¶ Now when
Jesus saw great multitudes about him, he gave commandment to depart unto the
other side. 19 And a certain scribe
came, and said unto him, Master, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest.
20 And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes
have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath
not where to lay his head. 21 And
another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my
father. 22 But Jesus said unto him,
Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.
This scribe swears that he will follow Christ anywhere and Christ
replies with the fact that He, as the Messiah of the Jewish people, indeed of
the world, has no home. This suggests that the scribe better think of the cost
before he writes a check with his words that his actions can’t cash. Here is
the cost of following Christ in another passage;
Luke 14:25 ¶ And there went great multitudes with him: and
he turned, and said unto them,
26 If any man come to me, and hate not his
father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and
his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. 27
And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my
disciple. 28 For which of you, intending
to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he
have sufficient to finish it? 29 Lest
haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all
that behold it begin to mock him, 30
Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish. 31 Or what king, going to make war against
another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with
ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand? 32 Or else, while the other is yet a great way
off, he sendeth an ambassage, and desireth conditions of peace. 33 So likewise, whosoever he be of you that
forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.
Matthew 8:22 is a significantly important statement about how the
Jews of that time were spiritually dead. This is a stark condemnation of their
spiritual state. According to John Gill, who preached in Spurgeon’s church a
hundred years before him the Jews counted the sinner as dead and spoke of them,
even while alive, as dead.
The phrase Son of man links Christ to Daniel 7:13.
Daniel 7:13 I saw in the
night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man
came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they
brought him near before him.
It is the Messiah in His human form as fully man just as He is
fully God as the Son of God.
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