bury the dead

¹⁸ When Jesus saw the crowd around him, he gave orders to cross to the other side of the lake. ¹⁹ Then a teacher of the law came to him and said, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.”
²⁰ Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”
²¹ Another disciple said to him, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.”
²² But Jesus told him, “Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead.”

I found this passage interesting! Especially 21-22! Firstly we must recognize that the verses are not literal, when Jesus said in 22 let the dead bury their own dead, Jesus was not talking about the physically dead! To ask the physically dead to bury another physically dead does not make sense. After all how do you make a dead person bury another dead person? 

Jesus is talking about the dead spiritually, the people who are far away from God, that they do not walk with God. Jesus in other words were saying let those spiritually dead bury the dead, and do not deviate from your spiritual responsibilities that Jesus have given you. 

After all when Lazerous was dead, Jesus went to see him to raise him from the dead.