appears that the turning is not part of the internalizing of the message, but rather deals with an external action. Whether the above analysis of turning in Isa 6:10 bears any weight or not, the vast majority of the uses of the term epistrephō in the NT certainly deal with something externally observable. We conclude, therefore, that turning from one’s sins in an observable manner may well be the fruit of repentance and/or believing (cp. Acts 3:19 and 11:21), but the turning is not part of the root.