Acts 28:20

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

This cause

Acts 28:17

Acts 10:29

For the

Acts 23:6

Acts 24:15

Acts 26:6

This chain

General references

Philippians 1:13

Bible References

This cause

And it came to pass after three days, that he called together those who were the chief of the Jews; and when they had come together he said to them, Brethren, I having done nothing against the people or the customs of our forefathers, have been delivered a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans,

Wherefore also, having been sent for, I came without saying anything against it. I inquire therefore for what reason ye have sent for me.

For the

But Paul, knowing that the one part of them were of the Sadducees and the other of the Pharisees, cried out in the council, Brethren, I am a Pharisee, son of Pharisees: I am judged concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead.

having hope towards God, which they themselves also receive, that there is to be a resurrection both of just and unjust.

And now I stand to be judged because of the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers,

This chain

For this reason I Paul, prisoner of the Christ Jesus for you nations,

I, the prisoner in the Lord, exhort you therefore to walk worthy of the calling wherewith ye have been called,

for which I am an ambassador bound with a chain, that I may be bold in it as I ought to speak.

so that my bonds have become manifest as being in Christ in all the praetorium and to all others;

The salutation by the hand of me Paul. Remember my bonds. Grace be with you.

but has been made manifest now by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who has annulled death, and brought to light life and incorruptibility by the glad tidings;

in which I suffer even unto bonds as an evil-doer: but the word of God is not bound.

I exhort thee for my child, whom I have begotten in my bonds, Onesimus,

General references

so that my bonds have become manifest as being in Christ in all the praetorium and to all others;