Acts 21:13
Then Paul responded by saying: “What do you accomplish by weeping and afflicting my heart? For I am prepared, not only to be bound, but also to die in Jerusalem, for the name of the Lord Jesus.”
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In Context
14And since we were not able to persuade him, we quieted, saying: “May the will of the Lord be done.”
Cross References
1 Samuel 15:14And Samuel said, “Then what is this voice of the flocks, which resounds in my ears, and of the herds, which I am hearing?”
Isaiah 3:15Why do you wear down my people, and grind up the faces of the poor, says the Lord, the God of hosts?
Jonah 1:6And the helmsman approached him, and he said to him, “Why are you weighed down with sleep? Rise, call upon your God, so perhaps God will be mindful of us and we might not perish.”
Acts 9:16For I will reveal to him how much he must suffer on behalf of my name.”
Acts 20:37Then a great weeping occurred among them all. And, falling upon the neck of Paul, they kissed him,
1 Corinthians 15:31Daily I die, by means of your boasting, brothers: you whom I have in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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 →