About three in the afternoon Jesus cried out with a loud voice, “Elí, Elí, lemá sabachtháni?” that is, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”

Listen carefully: your house is being left to you desolate [completely abandoned by God and destitute of His protection]!

Then answered Peter and said to him, Behold we have forsaken all, and followed thee. What shall we have therefore?

And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands for my names sake, shall receive an hundred fold, and inherit everlasting life.

But this has all taken place so that the writings of the prophets may be fulfilled." Then the disciples all forsook Him and made their escape.

And he said, for this reason shall a man forsake father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

and, forsaking Nazareth, he came and fixed his dwelling in Capernaum, which was by the lake, - within the bounds of Zebulun and Naphtali:

Jesus then said to his disciples. "If any man will follow me, let him forsake himself, and take up his cross and follow me.