Paul walks into the belly of the beast at Jerusalem — Israeli politics, embedded Romans, and the city where he knows what was done to Jesus.
Paul moving toward Jerusalem as one whose life mirrors his Messiah's — and the observation that you do not have to want where obedience is taking you.
Leviticus 25:1-7 and the sabbath rest built into the land itself. Rest is named as a value of the church, illustrated by Hemingway's habit of letting work go subterranean.
Acts 7:54-60. Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, sees heaven open and dies asking God not to hold the sin against those killing him.
Stephen in Acts 6 — three chapters in the whole New Testament, and an example of what following Christ costs. Framed as a story about the person in the pew,…
Acts 21:7-14. The prophet Agabus binds his own hands with Paul's belt, everyone begs Paul not to go to Jerusalem, and Paul answers that he is ready.