Acts 28:20
Because of this reason therefore I summoned you to see and to speak with me, for because of the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.
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Acts 10:29And so I came without objection when summoned. I ask therefore for what matter ye summoned me.
Acts 21:33And the chief captain having come near, he seized him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains. And he inquired whoever he may be, and what it is he has been doing.
Acts 24:15having hope toward God, which they themselves also await, to come to be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.
Acts 26:29And Paul said, I ever pray to God, both by little and by much, not only thee, but also all who hear me this day, to become such kind as I also am, apart from these bonds.
Ephesians 3:1For this reason I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles,
Ephesians 6:20for which I am an ambassador in bondage, so that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
Matthew Henry on Acts 28:18-23
Paul at Rome. 17 And it came to pass, that after three days Paul called the chief of the Jews together: and when they were come together, he said unto them, Men and brethren, though I have committed nothing against the people, or customs of our fathers, yet was I delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans. 18 Who, when they had examined me, would have let me go, because there was no cause of death in me. 19 But when the Jews spake against it, I was constrained to appeal unto Cæsar; not that I… Read the whole commentary →