...by the expressions of their love. " What mean ye ?" said he, " to weep and to break my heart ! for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus." This declaration was sufficient to convince them that...

...him not to go up to Jerusalem. ' Then Paul answered, what mean ye to weep and to break my heart 1 for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.'1 Paul would not be persuaded : neither let my brother...

...inquisition were arrayed to restrain Paul s progress : " What mean ye to weep and to break my heart ? for I am ready, not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem, for the name of the Lord Jesus;" Acts xxi. 13. In the general tenour of his ministry,...

...city, that bonds and imprisonment awaited him ? " " None of these things " — saith he — " move me. I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem, for the name of the Lord Jesus."8 He could look "tribulation, or persecution, or peril,...

...thing true. St. Paul is a good example. When his friends begged him not to go to Jerusalem he said, "I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus." Later thinking of Rome, the great city of the heathen...

...from going up to Jerusalem, Paul's one answer was: "What mean ye to weep and to break my heart? For I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ."16 The battering-ram of natural affection which...

...work be persevered in that is accompanied with danger ? That was not Paul's spirit, when he said, " I am ready, not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus." It was thus He acted, who said, " I lay down my life...

...not to go up to Jerusalem. 13 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. 14 And when he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying,...

...have received of the Lord Jesus, viz., to testify the Gospel of the grace of God. And chap. 21:13, I am ready not to be bound only but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus. Having such lights and leaders for our example, shall...

...extent that Paul, being unable to bear it, 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" (Acts 21:13). This is the principle of fasting. In fasting,...