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

And Samuel said, What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?

what mean ye that ye crush my people, and grind the face of the poor? saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.

What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge?

So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.

To weep

And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul's neck and kissed him,

And Elkanah her husband said unto her, Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? am not I better to thee than ten sons?

since he longed after you all, and was sore troubled, because ye had heard that he was sick:

longing to see thee, remembering thy tears, that I may be filled with joy;

For

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

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

I protest by that glorifying in you, brethren, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

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

Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I more; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths oft.

according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing shall I be put to shame, but that with all boldness, as always,'so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death.

Yea, and if I am offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all:

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church;

No soldier on service entangleth himself in the affairs of this life; that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.

For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure is come.

knowing that the putting off of my tabernacle cometh swiftly, even as our Lord Jesus Christ signified unto me.

Because thou didst keep the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of trial, that hour which is to come upon the whole world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.

And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony; and they loved not their life even unto death.

General references

But thou, son of man, behold, they shall lay bands upon thee, and shall bind thee with them, and thou shalt not go out among them:

Arise, let us be going: behold, he is at hand that betrayeth me.

so that my bonds became manifest in Christ throughout the whole praetorian guard, and to all the rest;