Acts 21:13

"What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart?" Paul's brethren were so concerned that tears and weeping accompanied such pleas. "The verb breaking is. very picturesque word, being used of the pounding that. washerwoman would give clothes to get them to yield to her efforts to clean them. Paul felt his determination to go to Jerusalem weakening before the forceful pleadings of the brethren. He respected their judgment, knew they had his best interests at heart, and knew as well as they the dangers and persecution that awaited him at Jerusalem. It was with no stoic hardness that he resisted their pleadings" (Reese p. 788). "For. am ready not only to be bound, but even to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus" Notice the emphasis upon "I". Regardless of what others may feel, Paul was determined to face such suffering, yea, he was prepared to even face death.