Acts 21:13
Then answered Paul, What mean ye that ye weep, and break my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
12But when we heard this, both we, and they of that place, besought him not to go to Jerusalem.
14And when he would not be persuaded, we ceased; saying, The Lord's will be done.
Cross References
Isaiah 3:15What mean ye, that ye crush my people, And grind the faces of the poor?” Saith Jehovah, the Lord of hosts.
Jonah 1:6And the shipmaster came to him, and said to him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? Arise, call upon thy God! Perhaps God will think upon us, that we perish not.
Acts 9:16For I myself will show him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake.
Acts 20:37And they all wept sorely, and fell on Paul's neck, and kissed him;
1 Corinthians 15:31I protest, brethren, by my glorying in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, that 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 →