Acts 21:13

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. And when he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, The will of the Lord be done.

This is a tragic passage. Against the advice of his physician, and contrary to the insistence of his friends and fellow-Christians, Paul determined to go to Jerusalem, believing, of course, that it was the will of God for him to go; a conclusion that was reluctantly accepted by Luke and others who sought to dissuade him.

I am ready ... to die at Jerusalem ... It certainly was not God's will that Paul should die in Jerusalem, for such did not occur. Paul's words remind one of what Peter said (John 13:37); but there was a difference. Peter's affirmation that he was ready to die for the Lord was made in his own strength; Paul's was made in the strength of the Lord. The group concurred in the conviction that Paul knew what the will of the Lord was.