Acts 28:20

for this cause, therefore, I called for you to see and to speak with [you], for because of the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.”

Literal Standard Version

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

19and the Jews having spoken against [it], I was constrained to appeal to Caesar—not as having anything to accuse my nation of;

21And they said to him, “We neither received letters concerning you from Judea, nor did anyone who came of the brothers declare or speak any evil concerning you,

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Cross References

Acts 10:29therefore also without contradicting I came, having been sent for; I ask, therefore, for what matter you sent for me?”

Acts 21:33Then the chief captain, having come near, took him, and commanded [him] to be bound with two chains, and was inquiring who he may be, and what it is he has been doing,

Acts 24:15having hope toward God, which they themselves also wait for, [that] there is about to be a resurrection of the dead, both of righteous and unrighteous;

Acts 26:29And Paul said, “I would have wished to God, both in a little, and in much, not only you, but also all those hearing me today, to become such as I also am—except these bonds.”

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

Ephesians 6:20for which I am an ambassador in a chain, that in it I may speak freely—as it is necessary for me 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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