Acts 21:13

Paul answers that their weeping breaks his heart, yet he is ready to be bound and even to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus. His resolve is fixed on Christ.

Cross-references · 23

• Acts 20:24But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so 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.
• Phil 1:20–21According 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.
• Phil 2:17Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.
• Rom 8:35–37Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
• 2 Tim 4:6For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.
• 2 Tim 2:4–6No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
• Rev 12:11And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
• 2 Cor 4:10–17Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
• Acts 20:37And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul’s neck, and kissed him,
• Col 1:24Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church:
• 2 Pet 1:14Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.
• Acts 5:41And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.
• Acts 9:16For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name’s sake.
• 2 Tim 1:4Greatly desiring to see thee, being mindful of thy tears, that I may be filled with joy;
• 1 Cor 15:31I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our LORD, I die daily.
• 2 Cor 11:23–27Are 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 oft.
• Rev 3:10Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
• Phil 2:26For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick.
• 1 Sam 15:14And Samuel said, What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?
• Jonah 1:6So 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.
• Ezek 18:2What 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?
• Isa 3:15What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
• 1 Sam 1:8Then said Elkanah her husband to 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?

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