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

Then Samuel said, What means then this bleating of the sheep in my ears and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?

What do you mean that ye beat my people to pieces and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of the hosts.

What mean ye, that ye use this saying 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 he will have compassion upon us that we not perish.

To weep

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

Then Elkanah, her husband, said to her, Hannah, why dost thou weep? And why dost thou not eat? And why is thy heart grieved? Am I not better to thee than ten sons?

For he longed after you all and was full of heaviness, because ye had heard that he had been sick

greatly desiring to see thee (being mindful of thy tears), that I may be filled with joy,

For

But none of these things move me, neither do I count my life dear unto myself, only that I might finish my course with joy and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

Who shall separate us from the charity of Christ? shall tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword?

I die daily to stay in the glory of having taught you, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord.

always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.

Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more, in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths often.

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

And even if I am poured out as an offering upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all.

who now rejoice in my sufferings for you and fulfill in my flesh that which is lacking of the tribulations of the Christ for his body's sake, which is the congregation ,

No man that wars entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who has chosen him to be a soldier.

For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my release is at hand.

knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ has declared unto me.

Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the entire world, to try those that dwell upon the earth.

And they have overcome him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.

General references

And thou, O son of man, behold, they shall put bands upon thee and shall bind thee with them, and thou shalt not go out among them;

Rise, let us be going; behold, he is at hand that doth betray me.

so that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace and in all other places;