Paul

Wherefore too the noble apostle calls idolatry one of the kinds of fornication, following the prophet who says:

But the things which formerly he had reckoned gain, which above too he enumerates — the glory of the flesh, the mark of circumcision, the reckoning of Hebrew race out of a Hebrew, the title of the tribe of Benjamin, the dignity of pure Pharisaism — these now he reckons to himself for loss;

And this is what the Lord had commanded him in that stroke of blindness, saying, Rise and enter Damascus;

But indeed even Paul, who had let himself be loosed down by the wall to be delivered from a persecution which up to that time was of the precept—the same man now, at the close of his ministry and the consummation of the precept, when the disciples greatly besought him not to commit himself to Jerusalem, where he would suffer what Agabus had prophesied, did not subscribe to their solicitude, but on the contrary said:

But since these most perverse men put forward that rebuke for this purpose, to make the earlier teaching suspect, I will answer, as it were on Peter's behalf, that Paul himself said he had become all things to all men — to the Jews a Jew, to the non-Jews a non-Jew — that he might gain all.

When Agabus had prophesied Paul's chains even by a gesture, the disciples, weeping and praying that he would not commit himself to Jerusalem, prayed in vain.