Acts 28:20
For this cause therefore I desired to see you, and to speak to you. Because that for the hope of Israel, I am bound with this chain.
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Acts 10:29For which cause, making no doubt, I came when I was sent for. I ask, therefore, for what cause you have sent for me?
Acts 21:33Then the tribune coming near, took him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains: and demanded who he was, and what he had done.
Acts 24:15Having hope in God, which these also themselves look for, that there shall be a resurrection of the just and unjust.
Acts 26:29And Paul said: I would to God, that both in a little and in much, not only thou, but also all that hear me, this day, should become such as I also am, except these bands.
Ephesians 3:1For this cause, I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ, for you Gentiles;
Ephesians 6:20For which I am an ambassador in a chain, so that therein I may be bold to speak according as I ought.
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 →