Acts 28:20
For this reason therefore I desired to see and to speak to you: because that for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.
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Acts 10:29And therefore I came to you, when I was sent for, without demur. I ask therefore on what account ye sent for me.
Acts 21:33Then the commanding officer came near and took him, and ordered him to be bound with two chains; and inquired, who he was, and what he had done.
Acts 24:15having hope in God, (which they themselves also expect) that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.
Acts 26:29And Paul said, I would to God, that not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, were both almost, and altogether such as I am, except these bonds.
Ephesians 3:1For this cause I Paul am the prisoner of Jesus Christ for the sake of you Gentiles:
Ephesians 6:20for which I am an ambassador though in chains: that I may speak boldly in behalf of it, 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 →