Acts 28:20

Therefore for this reason I have requested you, to see and to speak to you, for because of the hope of Israel I am wearing this chain.”

English Majority Text (NT)

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 when the Jews spoke in opposition, I was compelled to appeal to Caesar, not that I had anything of which to accuse my nation.

21Then they said to him, “We neither received letters from Judea concerning you, nor have any of the brothers who arrived report or speak anything evil about you.

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Cross References

Acts 10:29therefore also without objecting, I came when I was sent for. I ask, then, for what reason have you sent for me?”

Acts 21:33And the commander, approaching, took hold of him, and ordered him to be bound with two chains; and he was inquiring who he might be and what he had done.

Acts 24:15having hope in God, which even they themselves are waiting for, that there is going to be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and the unjust.

Acts 26:29And Paul said, “I would to God, both in a short time and a long time, that not only you, but also all who are hearing me today, would become such as I am, except for these chains.”

Ephesians 3:1For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles—

Ephesians 6:20for the sake of which I serve as an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I must speak. 1 Final Greetings

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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