Acts 28:20

Because of my appeal, then, I have asked to see you and to speak with you. It is because of the certain hope of Israel that I am bound with this chain.”

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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 against their desire, I was forced to appeal to Caesar, although it is not as if I were bringing any accusation against my nation.

21Then they said to him, “We neither received letters from Judea about you, nor did any of the brothers come and report or say anything bad about you.

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Cross References

Acts 10:29That is why I came without arguing, when I was sent for. So I ask you why you sent for me.”

Acts 21:33Then the chief captain approached and laid hold of Paul, and commanded him to be bound with two chains. Then he asked who he was and what he had done.

Acts 24:15I have the same confident hope in God as these men, that there will be a resurrection of both the righteous and the wicked.

Acts 26:29Paul said, “I pray to God, that whether in a short or long time, not you only, but also all that hear me today, would be like me, but without these prison chains.”

Ephesians 3:1Because of this I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you Gentiles.

Ephesians 6:20It is for the gospel that I am an ambassador who is kept in chains, so that I may declare it 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 →

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