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 these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.
• Phil 1:20–21according 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.
• Phil 2:17Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all.
• Rom 8:35–37Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
• 2 Tim 4:6For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure has come.
• 2 Tim 2:4–6No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.
• Rev 12:11They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death.
• 2 Cor 4:10–17always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.
• Acts 20:37They all wept a lot, and fell on Paul’s neck and kissed him,
• Col 1:24Now 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 assembly;
• 2 Pet 1:14knowing that the putting off of my tent comes swiftly, even as our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me.
• Acts 5:41They therefore departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for Jesus’ name.
• Acts 9:16For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name’s sake.”
• 2 Tim 1:4longing to see you, remembering your tears, that I may be filled with joy;
• 1 Cor 15:31I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.
• 2 Cor 11:23–27Are 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.
• Rev 3:10Because 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.
• Phil 2:26since he longed for you all, and was very troubled, because you had heard that he was sick.
• 1 Sam 15:14Samuel said, “Then what does this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the cattle which I hear mean?”
• Jonah 1:6So the ship master 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.”
• Ezek 18:2“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’?
• Isa 3:15What do you mean that you crush my people, and grind the face of the poor?” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.
• 1 Sam 1:8Elkanah her husband said to her, “Hannah, why do you weep? Why don’t you eat? Why is your heart grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”

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