...cautioning one who proposed to follow him, "The foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of man has not where to lay his head." Here is the type of character which absorbs the whole life of the ascetic, — in fact, so absorbs...

...upon me these words as of a real state, into which you wished me to enter : " The birds of the heaven have nests, and the foxes have holes, but the Son of Man has not where to rest his head." You have indeed made me experience this state in all its extent since that time, having...

...so poor that He could say of Himself, " The foxes have holes, and the birds of heaven have nests ; but the Son of man has not where to lay His head " (Matt. 8: 20). And He mingled much with the poor of His day. When John in his perplexity sent messengers...

...that New Testament passage where we read, " Foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests ; but the Son of Man has not where to lay his head," — words which you may, if you like, take for the text of my discourse. The wonder, then, is not that...

...in Peraea he pathetically said : — The foxes have holes, and the birds of the heaven have haunts ; but the Son of man has not where to lay his head. — Luke 9 : 58. Thus he grew up as a root out of a dry ground ; he had no form nor comeliness ; when...

...wandering like that of the Master he would join. "Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has not where to lay his head." Another time one of his disciples came to him and said, "Master! let me first go and bury my father."...

...reported in different contexts. The first is, "The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests ; but the Son of man has not where to lay his head." Luke records these words in connection with Jesus' steadfast determination to go to Jerusalem and with...

...read that He dwelt in marble halls or that His relatives fought over the disposition of His fortune. "The birds of the air have nests and the foxes have holes, but the Son of Man hath not where to lay His head." Such was His pathetic exclamation. Neither the High Priestess of Christian...

...fruit, A house upon a rock, a house upon the sand, Outer darkness, Foxes have holes, birds have nests, but the Son of man has not where to lay His head, The whole city came to meet Jesus. Thy faith hath made thee whole, The plenteous harvest, Laborers few,...

...mayest go." And Jesus says to him, "The foxes have holes, and the birds of the heavens roosting places, but the Son of Man has not where to lay His head" (verse 19, 20). This man was a self-seeking scribe, one whose mind was filled with idle dreams of a...