Take leave or renounce describes departure from people or relinquishment of possessions according to the sentence. Mark records Jesus bidding farewell before prayer, and Acts describes Paul's departures, including his stated intention to return if God wills.
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Take leave or renounce describes departure from people or relinquishment of possessions according to the sentence. Mark records Jesus bidding farewell before prayer, and Acts describes Paul's departures, including his stated intention to return if God wills.
The BSB source-word alignment has 6 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include [before] saying goodbye (1), After bidding them farewell (1), as he left (1), bid farewell (1), does not give up (1).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Mark 6:46. Its strongest book concentrations include Acts (2), Luke (2), 2 Corinthians (1), Mark (1).
Take leave or renounce describes departure from people or relinquishment of possessions according to the sentence. Mark records Jesus bidding farewell before prayer, and Acts describes Paul's departures, including his stated intention to return if God wills. Second Corinthians names a departure while Paul lacks peace because Titus is absent. Luke also records a prospective follower's wish to say farewell, followed by Jesus' demanding response about looking back, and elsewhere Jesus says that giving up everything one has is necessary for discipleship.
Preserve that costly wording rather than reducing it to an easy slogan. At the same time, the verb does not name a present leader as the required recipient of everyone's property or settle every family's private duty. Read the person left or possession relinquished and the actual instruction, keeping ordinary travel departures distinct from the named discipleship demand.
Four narrated departures, a prospective follower's farewell request and a relinquishment demand account for the six Greek witnesses. Different objects and Jesus' actual responses keep ordinary leave-taking and discipleship cost distinct.
After bidding them farewell, He went up on the mountain to pray.
Jesus bids farewell after the crowd's dismissal and goes to pray, giving the departure its actual action without declaring every farewell an abandonment of relationships.
Still another said, “I will follow You, Lord; but first let me bid farewell to my family.”
The follower's farewell request is followed by Jesus' demanding plow-and-looking-back response, retaining both request and actual challenge rather than inventing an unreported outcome.
In the same way, any one of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be My disciple.
Jesus' statement names giving up everything one has as necessary for discipleship, preserving its cost without assigning a modern leader as the required recipient of possessions.
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Greek word. To renounce or forsake completely, often with the sense of formal separation or taking leave.
To renounce or forsake completely, often with the sense of formal separation or taking leave.
to set apart. Mid., in late Gk. (El., § 37, 1; Swete, Mk., 136 f.; MM, e. dative,
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
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I withdraw from, take leave of, renounce, send away
Read verseI withdraw from, take leave of, renounce, send away
Read verseI withdraw from, take leave of, renounce, send away
Read verseI withdraw from, take leave of, renounce, send away
Read verseI withdraw from, take leave of, renounce, send away
Read verseI withdraw from, take leave of, renounce, send away
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The object and surrounding instruction distinguish leave-taking from relinquishment. Mark's farewell precedes prayer, and Paul's Acts departures include an intention to return if God wills, so ordinary travel does not automatically reject a relationship. Second Corinthians also retains Paul's unease over Titus rather than presenting departure as proof of perfect emotional certainty.
Luke's follower request receives a demanding response that must remain visible without inventing how that person later acted. Luke 14's giving up everything is likewise a serious discipleship statement, not wording to dilute into an easy preference. Yet the passage does not name a present teacher as the recipient of every asset or provide a complete ruling for each family's particular circumstances.
Teach the actual cost and response, avoiding both evasion and coercive claims that demand dangerous isolation, property transfer or unquestioned obedience to a human leader.
Luke.14.33
The licensed Greek range distinguishes taking leave of people from forsaking or renouncing, with the sentence's object supplying the use. The six witnesses retain departures and one explicit possession demand. A word's broader range should not make every travel farewell identical to relinquishing everything for discipleship.
First Kings 19:19-21 records Elisha's request to kiss his parents goodbye, the reply, his provision of a meal and his subsequent following of Elijah. Read that actual narrated outcome beside Luke's separate follower request and response without silently harmonizing the two exchanges. The shared farewell setting does not let a teacher invent Luke's unreported outcome or create a current leader's unlimited authority over a family's property and contact.