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

After three days Paul called together the local leaders of the Jews; and when they had gathered, he said to them, "Brethren, though I had done nothing against our people or the customs of our fathers, yet I was delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.

So when I was sent for, I came without raising any objection. I ask then why you sent for me."

For the

But when Paul perceived that one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, "Brethren, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees; with respect to the hope and the resurrection of the dead I am on trial."

having a hope in God, which these men cherish themselves, that there will certainly be a resurrection of both the righteous and the wicked.

And now I am standing trial for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers;

This chain

For this reason I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles

I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of the calling to which you have been called,

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

so that my imprisonment for Christ has become well known throughout the whole praetorian guard and to everyone else,

I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand. Remember my chains. Grace be with you.

but has now been revealed through the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ, who has abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.

for which I am suffering even to the point of wearing chains like a criminal. But the word of God is not chained.

10 I appeal to you for my child, Onesimus, whose father I have become in my imprisonment.

General references

so that my imprisonment for Christ has become well known throughout the whole praetorian guard and to everyone else,