Jesus said, "Let the dead bury their own dead..." but, what does that mean?


A man said he wanted to follow Jesus, but the man asked if he could first go and bury his father.  Jesus replied to the man, “Let the dead bury their own dead,” but you go and proclaim the Kingdom of God (LUKE 9:59-60). 

What did Jesus mean by the statement "Let the dead bury their own dead?" Jesus was saying that the man should let those who are still physically alive, but spiritually dead, bury their own physically and spiritually dead.

Jesus was implying that the man who wanted to bury his father first, who was physically dead and spiritually dead, should prioritize the spreading of the Word over burying his father first, who died lost, without a commitment to God. 

This implies the importance of a commitment to God over the obligations of daily life, while we still are physically living, and that after we have physically died, their is no second chance. It implies that the obligations of life should not be prioritized in lieu of spreading God's Word. 

The obligations of physical life are numerous, and it's common for all of us that the obligations of life consume our attention, and distract us from the more important responsibility to spread the Word of God first, before allowing the obligations of life to consume our time and resources to the extent that we neglect spreading the Word of God.  


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