Luke 9:59

And he said unto another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.

This was prospect number two. He would follow the Lord, but of course, not during the lifetime of his father; after his father's death, and the estate had been settled, then he would be glad to follow. If his father was already dead, the man would have been occupied already with the funeral. Jesus' rejoinder stated the claim of highest priority for the affairs of his kingdom.