Acts 28:20

This is the reason why I begged you to see and speak with me. For because of the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain."

Montgomery New Testament

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

19"But when the Jews objected I was forced to appeal to Caesar, not that I had anything to accuse my nation of.

21They said to him. "We neither received any letters about you from Judea nor has any brother come hither to report or speak any harm of you.

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Cross References

Acts 10:29"I ask therefore why you sent for me."

Acts 21:33Then the tribune came up and seized him, and ordered that he be bound with two chains. "Who is he?" he began asking, "and what has he done?"

Acts 24:15"and having hope toward God, which these also themselves look for, that there is to be a resurrection both of the just and the unjust.

Acts 26:29"Long or short," answered Paul, "my prayer to God is that not only you but all who are my hearers this day might become such as I am, save for these chains."

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

Ephesians 6:20and in chains. Pray that I may proclaim 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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