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.
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Gill's Exposition
Then Paul answered, what mean ye to weep,.... For they were crying about him, both his companions and the disciples of Caesarea; which affected him, and gave him great uneasiness, even more than the…
Barnes' Notes
What mean ye - Greek: What do ye. A tender and affectionate, but firm reproach. To weep and to break mine heart? - To afflict me, and distract my mind by alarms, and by the expressions of tenderness.…
Adam Clarke
I am ready, not to be bound only - He was resolute and determined; but was under no constraining necessity. See the note on Act 21:4.
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…
Cambridge Bible
Then Paul answered. What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart Better (with Rev. Ver.), "What do ye, weeping and breaking my heart?" The sentence is little more than an emphatic question, "Why do ye…
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