Acts 21:13

Then Paul answered, and said: What do you mean weeping and afflicting my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but to die also in Jerusalem, for the name of the Lord Jesus.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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

12Which when we had heard, both we and they that were of that place, desired him that he would not go up to Jerusalem.

14And when we could not persuade him, 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 flocks, which soundeth in my ears, and the lowing of the herds, which I hear?

Isaiah 3:15Why do you consume my people, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord the God of hosts.

Jonah 1:6And the shipmaster came to him, and said to him: Why art thou fast asleep? rise up, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think of us, that we may not perish.

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

Acts 20:37And there was much weeping among them all; and falling on the neck of Paul, they kissed him,

1 Corinthians 15:31I die daily, I protest by your glory, brethren, which 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 →

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