Christian Texts and History • Re: What is the Marcan equivalent to *Ev 9:57–62?

When, however, He answers the man, who alleged as an excuse his father's burial, Let the dead bury their dead, but go and preach the kingdom of God, Luke 9:59-60 He gave a clear confirmation to those two laws of the Creator — that in Leviticus, which concerns the sacerdotal office, and forbids the priests to be present at the funerals even of their parents. The priest, says He, shall not enter where there is any dead person; and for his father he shall not be defiled ; as well as that in Numbers, which relates to the (Nazarite) vow of separation; for there he who devotes himself to God, among other things, is bidden not to come at any dead body, not even of his father, or his mother, or his brother. Numbers 6:6-7 Now it was, I suppose, for the Nazarite and the priestly office that He intended this man whom He had been inspiring to preach the kingdom of God. Or else, if it be not so, he must be pronounced impious enough who, without the intervention of any precept of the law, commanded that burials of parents should be neglected by their sons. When, indeed, in the third case before us, (Christ) forbids the man to look back who wanted first to bid his family farewell, He only follows out the rule of the Creator. For this (retrospection) He had been against their making, whom He had rescued out of Sodom. Genesis 19:17