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

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

For the

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

having a hope in God, which these men themselves accept, that there will be a resurrection of both the just and the unjust.

And now I stand here on trial because of my hope in the promise made by God to our fathers,

This chain

For this reason I, Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles--

I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner 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 it has become known throughout the whole imperial guard and to all the rest that my imprisonment is for Christ.

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

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

for which I am suffering, bound with chains as a criminal. But the word of God is not bound!

I appeal to you for my child, Onesimus,whose father I became in my imprisonment.

General references

so that it has become known throughout the whole imperial guard and to all the rest that my imprisonment is for Christ.