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.

To weep

Acts 20:37

Philippians 2:26

2 Timothy 1:4

For

General references

Matthew 26:46

Philippians 1:13

Bible References

To weep

And they all began, with loud lamentations, to throw their arms about his neck, and to kiss him lovingly, again and again,

for he has been homesick for you all, and distressed at your having heard of his illness.

Night and day when I recall your tears I am longing to see you, that my happiness may be complete.

For

But I hold not my life of any account, as dear unto myself, if only I may run my race, and accomplish the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to attest the gospel of the grace of God.

What shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall anguish, or calamity, or persecution, or famine? Shall nakedness, or peril, or sword?

Every day I am facing death, my brothers, I affirm it by that pride in you which I have through Christ Jesus our Lord.

Wherever I go, I am always carrying about in my body the dying of Jesus, in order that the life also of Jesus may be made manifest in this body of mine.

Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as though I were beside myself), such, far, more, am I; in labors more abundant, in imprisonments also more abundant, in floggings beyond measure, in deaths often.

So it is my keen expectation and hope that I shall never feel ashamed, but that with fearless courage, now as hither to, Christ may be magnified in my body, whether by my life or by my death.

Nay, even if my life is to be poured out as a libation upon the sacrifice and service of you faith,

I am now rejoicing in my sufferings on your behalf; and I am filling up in my own body what is yet lacking of the sufferings of Christ in behalf of the church, his Body.

A soldier in active service avoids entangling himself in the every-day affairs of life, so that he may please his commander.

I for my part am a libation already being poured in sacrifice; and the time of my unmooring is at hand.

since I know that the time for me to strike tent comes swiftly on, even as our Lord Jesus Christ pointed out to me.

Because you have kept the word of my patience, I also will keep you from that hour of trial which is about to come upon the whole inhabited earth, to test those who dwell on the earth.

And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb, And by the word of their testimony; And they loved not their life, even unto death.

General references

"Rouse yourselves! Let us go. My betrayer is close at hand!"

Throughout the whole Praetorian guard and among all the others it has become plain that these chains of mine are for the sake of Christ;