Verb paraiteomai (to beg, to decline) in the Gospels-Acts

(Translation from NRSV with a few modifications for a more literal meaning)


Mark

15: 6Now at the festival he used to release a prisoner for them, anyone for whom they begged (paraiteomai).

Luke

14: 18But they all alike began to decline (paraiteomai). The first said to him, 'I have bought a piece of land, and I must go out and see it; please consider me as having declined (paraiteomai).'
14: 19Another said, 'I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to try them out; please consider me as having declined (paraiteomai).'

Acts

25: 11Now if I am in the wrong and have committed something for which I deserve to die, I am not trying to decline (paraiteomai) having to die; but if there is nothing to their charges against me, no one can turn me over to them. I appeal to the emperor."