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What does the Bible really say in Luke 9:61-62?
What does the Bible really say in Luke 9:61-62?
The Christ Family Bible, like The Living Bible and The Message, reads the Ancient Greek in a far more compassionate and understandable way than the majority of translations, which present the Lord as insisting that a person isn't fit for the Kingdom of God if they engage in saying goodbye to their family before journeying with the Lord.
The Christ Family Bible, like The Living Bible and The Message, reads the Ancient Greek in a far more compassionate and understandable way than the majority of translations, which present the Lord as insisting that a person isn't fit for the Kingdom of God if they engage in saying goodbye to their family before journeying with the Lord.
"Yet also [an]other said, 'I will follow You, Lord. Yet first permit me to detach* from the [ones] in the household of mine.'
"Yet also [an]other said, 'I will follow You, Lord. Yet first permit me to detach* from the [ones] in the household of mine.'
"Yet the Iesous said to him, 'No one thrusting the hand onto [a] plough and looking to the [things] behind is well placed in the kingdom of the God.'"
"Yet the Iesous said to him, 'No one thrusting the hand onto [a] plough and looking to the [things] behind is well placed in the kingdom of the God.'"
*This term (apotasso) had senses of making formal arrangements, not merely "saying goodbye" as many translations read. See 1 Maccabees 4:61, 11:3, Jeremiah 20:2 (in the LXX/Septuagint) etc.
*This term (apotasso) had senses of making formal arrangements, not merely "saying goodbye" as many translations read. See 1 Maccabees 4:61, 11:3, Jeremiah 20:2 (in the LXX/Septuagint) etc.
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