ACTS 21:15 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And after those days we took up our carriages, and went up to Jerusalem.”
After these days we got ready and started on our way up to Jerusalem — the journey resumes with finality; 'up' (anabaino) carries theological weight, the movement toward the holy city and toward death. Paul ascends as Jesus ascended, toward glorification through suffering.
Church Fathers on Acts 21:15
Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart? Acts 21:13 Do you mark? Lest, having heard that saying, I go bound in the Spirit Acts 20:22, you should imagine it a matter of necessity, or that he fell into it ignorantly, therefore these things are foretold. But they wept, and he comforted them, grieving at their tears. For, what mean ye, he says, to weep and to break my heart? Nothing could be more affectionate: because he saw them weeping, he grieved, he…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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