Acts 21:13

Then Paul answered, and said, What do ye, weeping and tormenting mine heart? (or Why be ye weeping, and tormenting my heart so?) For I am ready, not only to be bound, but also to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

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 thing when we heard, we prayed, and they that were of that place, that he should not go up to Jerusalem (or that he would not go up to Jerusalem).

14And when we might not counsel him, we were still, and said, The will of the Lord be done.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 15:14And Samuel said, And what is this voice of flocks (or But what is this sound of the flocks), that soundeth in mine ears, and of (the) great beasts, which I hear?

Isaiah 3:15Why all-break ye my people, and grind together the faces of poor men? saith the Lord God of hosts. (Why altogether break ye my people, and altogether grind down the poor? saith the Lord God of hosts.)

Jonah 1:6And the governor came to him, and said to him, Why art thou cast down in sleep? rise thou, call thy God to help, if peradventure God again-think of us, and we perish not. (And the captain came down to him, and said, Why art thou sleeping? rise thou up, call thy God to help us, and perhaps your God shall remember us, and then we shall not perish.)

Acts 9:16For I shall show to him, how great things it behooveth him to suffer for my name.

Acts 20:37And great weeping of all men was made; and they felled on the neck of Paul, and kissed him,

1 Corinthians 15:31Each day I die for your glory, brethren, which glory I have in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Every day I die for your glory, brothers, which glory I have in the Messiah 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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