Matthew 8:19-22 And a certain scribe came, and said to him, Master, I will follow you wherever you go.… A man fascinated with the idea of raising fruit, goes to the country and sets out his orchards with bright anticipations as to the result. But no sooner have his trees got well started than all nature becomes his tormentor. The frost blasts the blossoms. The worms gnaw the roots. The insects sting both blossom and roots. And when he has toiled year after year, and brought his trees into such a state that he thinks that he is going to have a profusion of delicious fruit, the black wart seizes his plum-trees, and the gum-canker attacks his cherry-trees, and the winterblight kills his pear-trees, and his apple-trees will not bear anyhow; and at last disgusted with raising fruit, he comes back to the city, and says, "I prefer, after all, that other people should be my pomologists. I have had enough of gardening." (Beecher.) Parallel Verses KJV: And a certain scribe came, and said unto him, Master, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest.WEB: A scribe came, and said to him, "Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go." |
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