Acts 28:20

For this cause therefore I have called you to [me] to see and to speak to you; for on account of the hope of Israel I have this chain about me.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

For this cause therefore have I called for you, to see you, and to speak with you: because that for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.

In Context

19But the Jews speaking against it, I was compelled to appeal to Caesar, not as having anything to accuse my nation of.

21And they said to him, For our part, we have neither received letters from Judaea concerning thee, nor has any one of the brethren who has arrived reported or said anything evil concerning thee.

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Cross References

Acts 10:29Wherefore also, having been sent for, I came without saying anything against it. I inquire therefore for what reason ye have sent for me.

Acts 21:33Then the chiliarch came up and laid hold upon him, and commanded [him] to be bound with two chains, and inquired who he might be, and what he had done.

Acts 24:15having hope towards God, which they themselves also receive, that there is to be a resurrection both of just and unjust.

Acts 26:29And Paul [said], I would to God, both in little and in much, that not only thou, but all who have heard me this day, should become such as *I* also am, except these bonds.

Ephesians 3:1For this reason *I* Paul, prisoner of the Christ Jesus for you nations,

Ephesians 6:20for which I am an ambassador [bound] with a chain, that I may be bold in it 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 →

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