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

Samuel said, "Then what does this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the cattle which I hear mean?"

What do you mean that you crush my people, and grind the face of the poor?" says the Lord, the LORD of hosts.

"What do you mean, that you 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 to him, "What do you mean, sleeper? Arise, call on your God. Maybe your God will notice us, so that we won't perish."

To weep

They all wept a lot, and fell on Paul's neck and kissed him,

Elkanah her husband said to her, "Hannah, why do you weep? Why do you not eat? Why is your heart grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?"

since he longed for you all, and was very troubled, because you had heard that he was sick.

longing to see you, remembering your tears, that I may be filled with joy;

For

But I make my life an account of nothing precious to myself, so that I may finish my race, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.

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

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

always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.

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

according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death.

Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, 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 duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.

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

knowing that the putting off of my tent comes swiftly, even as our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me.

Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.

They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony. They did not love their life, even to death.

General references

But you, son of man, behold, they shall lay bands on you, and shall bind you with them, and you shall not go out among them:

Arise, let us be going. Look, he who betrays me is near."

so that it became evident to the whole praetorian guard, and to all the rest, that my bonds are in Christ;