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Verb paraiteomai (to beg, to decline) in the Gospels-Acts
(Translation from NRSV with a few modifications for a more literal meaning)
Mark
| 15: 6 | Now at the festival he used to release a prisoner for them, anyone for whom they begged (paraiteomai). |
Luke
| 14: 18 | But 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: 19 | Another 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: 11 | Now 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." |
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