Acts 28:20

Then for this cause I have called you, to see you, and talk to you: for on account of the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.

1902 William Baxter Godbey 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

19and the Jews speaking against it, I was compelled to appeal to Caesar, not having anything for which to accuse my nation.

21And they said to him, Neither have we received letters from Judea concerning you, neither has any one of the brethren coming, proclaimed or spoken anything evil concerning you.

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Cross References

Acts 10:29Therefore indeed, being sent for, I came unhesitatingly. Then I make inquiry for what word did you send for me?

Acts 21:33Then the chiliarch, having come nigh, took Paul, and commanded that he should be bound with two chains; and was making inquiry who he might be, and what he had done.

Acts 24:15having hope towards God, which they themselves also receive, that there is going to be a resurrection, both of the just and unjust.

Acts 26:29And Paul said, I would to God, that both in little and in much, not only you, but also all of those hearing me this day, were such as I am, except these bonds.

Ephesians 3:1Therefore I Paul, the prisoner of Christ for the sake of you Gentiles,

Ephesians 6:20for which I am an ambassador in chain; in order that in it I may preach boldly, as it behooves 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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