Acts 21:13

Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.

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In Context

12And when we heard these things, both we, and they of that place, besought him not to go up to Jerusalem.

14And when he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, The will of the Lord be done.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 15:14And Samuel said, What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?

Isaiah 3:15What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the LORD GOD of hosts.

Jonah 1:6So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.

Acts 9:16For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name’s sake.

Acts 20:37And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul’s neck, and kissed him,

1 Corinthians 15:31I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

Matthew Henry on Acts 21:9-15

The Prophecy of Agabus; Paul's Adherence to His Resolution to Visit Jerusalem. 8 And the next day we that were of Paul's company departed, and came unto Cæsarea: and we entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, which was one of the seven; and abode with him. 9 And the same man had four daughters, virgins, which did prophesy. 10 And as we tarried there many days, there came down from Judæa a certain prophet, named Agabus. 11 And when he was come unto us, he took Paul's girdle, and bound his own hands and… Read the whole commentary →

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