'Deserting' in the Bible
Then Jesus said to them, “You will all fall away because of Me this night [disillusioned about Me, confused, and some even ashamed of Me], for it is written [in the Scriptures], ‘I will strike the Shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’
And at the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?”—which is translated, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”
because he was the reason many of the Jews were deserting them and believing in Jesus.
I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of the Messiah and, instead, are following a different gospel,