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 the chief men of the Jews; and when they had come, he said to them: Brethren, though I have done nothing against the people, or the customs of our fathers, yet I was delivered as a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.

For this reason, when I was sent for, I came without making objection. I ask, therefore, for what purpose have you sent for me?

For the

But when Paul perceived that one part belonged to the Sadducees, and the other to the Pharisees, he cried out, in the Sanhedrin: Brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee; for the hope of the resurrection of the dead am I judged.

having hope in God, which they themselves also admit, that I there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and of the unjust.

And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers;

This chain

For this reason, I Paul, the prisoner of the Christ Jesus on account of you Gentiles,

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, exhort you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you have been called;

for which I am an ambassador in chains, that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

so that my bonds which are for Christ have become known to be such in all the palace, and in all other places;

The salutation of me, Paul, with my own hand. Remember my bonds. Grace be with you. Amen.

but is now made manifest by the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ, who has deprived death of its power, and brought life and incorruptibility to light through the gospel;

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

I beseech you for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds,

General references

so that my bonds which are for Christ have become known to be such in all the palace, and in all other places;