Acts 28:20
For this cause therefore did I entreat you to see and to speak with me: for because of the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.
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Acts 10:29wherefore also I came without gainsaying, when I was sent for. I ask therefore with what intent ye sent for me.
Acts 21:33Then the chief captain came near, and laid hold on him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains; and inquired who he was, and what he had done.
Acts 24:15having hope toward God, which these also themselves look for, that there shall be a resurrection both of the just and unjust.
Acts 26:29And Paul said, I would to God, that whether with little or with much, not thou only, but also all that hear me this day, might become such as I am, except these bonds.
Ephesians 3:1For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus in behalf of you Gentiles,—
Ephesians 6:20for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak 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 →