And after those days we took up our carriages, and went up to Jerusalem.
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And went up to Jerusalem - for the fifth time since his conversion; thus concluding his third and last missionary tour (so far as recorded); for though he accomplished the fourth and last part of the plan sketched out in Acts 19:21 - "after I have been at Jerusalem I must also see Rome" - it was as "a prisoner of Jesus Christ" that he entered it. The apostle was full of anxiety about this visit to Jerusalem, from the numerous prophetic intimations of danger awaiting him, and from having reason to expect the presence at this feast of the very parties from whose virulent rage he had once and again narrowly escaped with his life. Hence, we find him asking the Roman Christians to wrestle with him in prayer, "for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that he might be delivered from them that believed not in Judea," as well as "that his service which he had for Jerusalem (the great collection for the poor saints there) might be accepted of the saints" ( Romans 15:30-31).