Matthew 8:20 and Luke 9:58, A Third Take

"The Son of Man becomes the Ascended Man. I am not there yet."

You can find any number of articles about Jesus being as a homeless person and would be disciples having to count the cost of following Him. A second take is that it was not a safe thing to be His follower; one could not count on sleeping in security. As has been noted, Jesus was not so much an ascetic. He had places to lay His head. But those places would not be as the ASCENDED Son of Man. He was as much as telling the guy, "I have a cup to drink, and have not drunk it yet." The show had just begun; there was much, much more to come. Buckle up.