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Acts 21:13 records Paul’s response to the pleas of believers who, having heard prophetic warnings, begged him not to go to Jerusalem (cf. Acts 21:10–12). Agabus had just foretold that Paul would be bound and delivered into the hands of the Gentiles. This verse is Paul’s deeply emotional but determined reply — revealing the heart of an apostle prepared for suffering and death for the name of Jesus.

Structural Analysis

ἀπεκρίθη τε ὁ Παῦλος· τί ποιεῖτε κλαίοντες καὶ συνθρύπτοντές μου τὴν καρδίαν; ἐγὼ γὰρ οὐ μόνον δεθῆναι, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἀποθανεῖν εἰς Ἱερουσαλὴμ ἑτοίμως ἔχω ὑπὲρ τοῦ ὀνόματος τοῦ Κυρίου Ἰησοῦ.

The verse contains:

An introductory narrative clause: ἀπεκρίθη τε ὁ Παῦλος — “Then Paul answered.”… Learn Koine Greek