Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 21:13

13 Then Paul answered, What mean you 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.

A strange strife, who should overcome by loving most, as in that betwixt David and Ionatham, 1 Sam. 20.40, &c. This undaunted Champion, who did not seem to feel any of his own afflictions and miseries, yet grieves for the grief and sympathy of others, and bears a double weight in his burdens; one directly and immediately from them, as lying upon himself; the other mediately, as recoiling from others (who suffered with him) unto him again.

As Christs love for us was stronger than death, Cant. 8.6. so must our love be to him again, or it is not of the same nature with his, nor begotten by it.

His Truth, and Glory.

Marginal references: Chap. 20.24.