"Go Back If You Want, It Was Nothing Of Importance."

"Elijah left.  He found Elisha, son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen; he was following the twelfth.  Elijah passed by him and cast his cloak over him.  Elisha left the oxen, ran after Elijah and said, 'Let me say goodbye to my father and mother; then I will follow you.'  Elijah said to him, 'Return if you want, don't worry about what I did.'  However, Elisha turned back, took the yoke of oxen and slew them.  He roasted their meat on the pieces of the yoke and gave it to his people who ate of it.  After this, he followed Elijah and began ministering to him." - 1 Kings 19:19-21 

Elisha, The Prophet Of Life

(Elijah passed by Elisha and cast his cloak over him.  He calls him in the same way as JESUS will call his apostles: "Follow me."  Perhaps Elijah interprets the answer, "Let me embrace my parents," as a hesitation on Elisha's part to leave everything and, for this reason, he answers him: "Go back if you want, it was nothing of importance."  But Elisha merely wanted to say goodbye to his relatives in a decent manner [see Luke 9:61.  From now on. Elisha will be Elijah's disciple and his successor in Israel.)

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