13Then 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.
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But 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.
Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.
According 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. …
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? …
For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-14)We have here Paul and his company arrived at length at Caesarea, where he designed to make some stay, it being the place where the gospel was first preached to the Gentiles, and the Holy Ghost fell upon them , Acts 10:1 , 44 . Now here we are told, I. Who it was that entertained Paul and his company at Caesarea . He seldom had occasion to go to a public house, but, wherever he came, some friend or…
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