And it may be that I will abide, yea, and winter with you, that ye may bring me on my journey whithersoever I go.

And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death:

But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.