Acts 21:13

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

What

To weep

For

General references

Ezekiel 3:25

Matthew 26:46

Philippians 1:13

Bible References

What

But Samuel said, “What then is this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?”

“What do you mean by crushing My people
And grinding the face of the poor?”
Declares the Lord God of hosts.

“What do you mean by using this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying,
‘The fathers eat the sour grapes,
But the children’s teeth are set on edge’?

So the captain approached him and said, “How is it that you are sleeping? Get up, call on your god. Perhaps your god will be concerned about us so that we will not perish.”

To weep

And they began to weep aloud and

embraced Paul, and repeatedly kissed him,

Then Elkanah her husband said to her, “Hannah, why do you weep and why do you not eat and why is your heart sad? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”

because he was longing for you all and was distressed because you had heard that he was sick.

longing to see you, even as I recall your tears, so that I may be filled with joy.

For

But I do not consider my life of any account as dear to myself, so that I may finish my course and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify solemnly of the gospel of the grace of God.

Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

I affirm, brethren, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

always carrying about in the body the dying of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body.

Are they servants of Christ?—I speak as if insane—I more so; in

far more labors, in

far more imprisonments,

beaten times without number, often in danger of death.

according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will not be put to shame in anything, but that with all boldness, Christ will even now, as always, be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death.

But even if I am being poured out as a drink offering upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and share my joy with you all.

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I do my share on behalf of His body, which is the church, in filling up what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions.

No soldier in active service entangles himself in the affairs of everyday life, so that he may please the one who enlisted him as a soldier.

For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure has come.

knowing that the laying aside of my earthly dwelling is imminent, as also our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me.

Because you have kept the word of My perseverance, I also will keep you from the hour of

testing, that hour which is about to come upon the whole

world, to test those who dwell on the earth.

And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their testimony, and they did not love their life even when faced with death.

General references

As for you, son of man, they will put ropes on you and bind you with them so that you cannot go out among them.

Get up, let us be going; behold, the one who betrays Me is at hand!”

so that my

imprisonment in the cause of Christ has become well known throughout the whole praetorian guard and to everyone else,