Acts 21:13

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Then Paul answered, What do ye, weeping and breaking my heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἀπεκρίθη δὲ ὁ Παῦλος, Τί ποιεῖτε κλαίοντες καὶ συνθρύπτοντές μου τὴν καρδίαν; ἐγὼ γὰρ οὐ μόνον δεθῆναι, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἀποθανεῖν εἰς Ἰερουσαλὴμ ἑτοίμως ἔχω ὑπὲρ τοῦ ὀνόματος τοῦ Κυρίου Ἰησοῦ.

Transliteration

But apekrithē Paulos, What poieite klaiontes and synthryptontes my kardian? for I not only to dethēnai, but also to apothanein in Ierousalēm hetoimōs echō for the onomatos of the Kyriou Iēsou.

Grammar Details

• *apekrithē*: aorist passive indicative, 3rd singular - he answered
• *Paulos*: nominative singular masculine - Paul
• *poieite*: present active indicative, 2nd plural - you are doing
• *klaiontes*: present active participle, nominative plural masculine - weeping
• *synthryptontes*: present active participle, nominative plural masculine - breaking/crushing
• *kardian*: accusative singular feminine - heart
• *dethēnai*: aorist passive infinitive - to be bound
• *apothanein*: aorist active infinitive - to die
• *Ierousalēm*: dative singular feminine - Jerusalem
• *hetoimōs*: adverb - readily/willingly
• *echō*: present active indicative, 1st singular - I have/am
• *onomatos*: genitive singular neuter - name
• *Kyriou*: genitive singular masculine - Lord
• *Iēsou*: genitive singular masculine - Jesus

Word Meanings

• *apekrithē*: answered/replied/responded
• *poieite*: you are doing/you are making/you are causing
• *klaiontes*: weeping/crying/lamenting
• *synthryptontes*: breaking/crushing/weakening
• *kardian*: heart/inner self/mind
• *dethēnai*: to be bound/to be tied/to be imprisoned
• *apothanein*: to die/to perish
• *hetoimōs*: readily/willingly/preparedly
• *echō*: I have/I am/I hold

Referenced Verses

• Acts 20:24 : 24 But I hold not my life of any account as dear unto myself, so that I may accomplish my course, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.
• Phil 2:17 : 17 Yea, and if I am offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all:
• Acts 9:16 : 16 for I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name's sake.
• Rom 8:35-37 : 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 Even as it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
• Phil 1:20-21 : 20 according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing shall I be put to shame, but [that] with all boldness, as always, [so] now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death. 21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
• 1 Cor 15:31 : 31 I protest by that glorifying in you, brethren, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die {G2596} daily.
• 2 Cor 4:10-17 : 10 always bearing about in the body the dying of {G2962} Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body. 11 For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh. 12 So then death {G3303} worketh in us, but life in you. 13 But having the same spirit of faith, according to that which is written, I believed, and therefore did I speak; we also believe, and therefore also we speak; 14 knowing that he that raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also with Jesus, and shall present us with you. 15 For all things [are] for your sakes, that the grace, being multiplied through the many, may cause the thanksgiving to abound unto the glory of God. 16 Wherefore we faint not; but though {G2532} our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day. 17 For our light affliction, which is for the moment, worketh for us {G2596} more and {G5236} more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;
• Acts 5:41 : 41 They therefore departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for the Name.
• Acts 20:37 : 37 And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul's neck and kissed him,
• Phil 2:26 : 26 since he longed after you all, and was sore troubled, because ye had heard that he was sick:
• Col 1:24 : 24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church;
• 2 Tim 1:4 : 4 longing to see thee, remembering thy tears, that I may be filled with joy;
• 2 Tim 2:4-6 : 4 No soldier on service entangleth himself in the affairs of [this] life; that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier. 5 And if also a man contend in the games, he is not crowned, except he have contended lawfully. 6 The husbandmen that laboreth must be the first to partake of the fruits.
• 2 Tim 4:6 : 6 For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure is come.
• 2 Pet 1:14 : 14 knowing that the putting off of my tabernacle cometh swiftly, even as our Lord Jesus Christ signified unto me.
• Rev 3:10 : 10 Because thou didst keep the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of trial, that [hour] which is to come upon the whole world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
• Rev 12:11 : 11 And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony; and they loved not their life even unto death.
• 2 Cor 11:23-27 : 23 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I more; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths oft. 24 Of the Jews five times received I forty [stripes] save one. 25 Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day have I been in the deep; 26 [ in] journeyings often, [in] perils of rivers, [in] perils of robbers, [in] perils from [my] countrymen, [in] perils from the Gentiles, [in] perils in the city, [in] perils in the wilderness, [in] perils in the sea, [in] perils among false brethren; 27 [ in] labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
• 1 Sam 15:14 : 14 And Samuel said, What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?
• Isa 3:15 : 15 what mean ye that ye crush my people, {H1792} and grind the face of the poor? saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.
• Ezek 18:2 : 2 What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge?
• Jonah 1:6 : 6 So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.