Acts 21:13

But Paul answered: What do you effect by weeping, and breaking my heart? For I am ready, not only to be bound, but also to suffer death in Jerusalem, for the name of the Lord Jesus.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

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

14And as he would not be persuaded, we kept silence, and said: The will of the Lord be done.

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Cross References

Acts 9:16For I will show him what great things he must suffer for my name.

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

1 Corinthians 15:31I protest, by the joy which I have over you 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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