Acts 28:20

Wherefore I have besought you to come, that I might see you, and declare to you these things; for on account of the hope of Israel am I bound with this chain.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

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 when the Jihudoyee had risen against me, I was constrained to call the appeal of Caesar; (yet) not as though I had in any thing to be the accuser of the sons of my people.

21They said to him, We have not received letters concerning thee from Jihud, and none of the brethren who have come from Urishlem have spoken any thing evil of thee.

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Cross References

Acts 10:29Wherefore I the more diligently came when you sent for me. But I ask you, on what account you have sent for me?

Acts 21:33And the tribune drew near and took him, and commanded them to bind him with two chains. And he asked concerning him who (he was), and what he had done?

Acts 24:15and having hope in Aloha that which they also hope: that there shall be a resurrection from the house of the dead, of the just and of the evil.

Acts 26:29And Paulos said, I would from Aloha that in little and in much, not only thou, but also all who hear me to-day, were as I am, except these bonds.

Ephesians 3:1On account of this I, Paulos, am bound for Jeshu Meshiha for the sake of you Gentiles:

Ephesians 6:20for which I am an ambassador in chains, that I may speak with freedom, as it behoveth me to speak it.

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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