Acts 21:13
However, Paul answered, “What are you doing, crying and breaking my heart? I'm ready not only to be bound in Jerusalem, but to die in Jerusalem for the sake of the Lord Jesus.”
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12When we heard this, we and the believers there pleaded with Paul not to go to Jerusalem.
14Since he couldn't be persuaded otherwise we gave up, and said, “May the Lord's will be done.”
Cross References
1 Samuel 15:14“So what's this bleating of sheep my ears are picking up? What's this lowing of cattle that I'm hearing?” Samuel asked.
Isaiah 3:15Why have you crushed my people? Why have you ground the faces of the poor into the dirt? the Lord Almighty demands to know.
Jonah 1:6The ship's captain went to Jonah and asked him, “How can you be sleeping? Get up and pray to your God. Maybe he will take notice of what's happening to us and we won't drown.”
Acts 9:16I will show him what he'll have to suffer for my name's sake.”
Acts 20:37They all wept as they hugged and kissed him.
1 Corinthians 15:31I die every day—let me say it bluntly, my brothers and sisters. This is just as sure as the pride I have for what Christ Jesus has done in you.
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 →