Follow me] Christ called him to preach the Gospel, Luke 9. 60. and in such a case parents, and all were to be left, Chap. 4. 20, 22.
let the dead bury their dead] Let them that are dead in sin, bury them that are dead for sin, 1 Timothy 5:6. It is an allusion to priests and Nazarites, who were forbidden to be present at funerall exequies, Leviticus 10:6. Numbers 6:6.