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

Philemon 1:10

General references

Philippians 1:13

Bible References

This cause

And it came to pass, after three days, he called together those who were first of the Jews; and they having assembled, he said to them, I, men, brethren, having done nothing against the people, or the customs of our fathers, was committed a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans;

Therefore indeed, being sent for, I came unhesitatingly. Then I make inquiry for what word did you send for me?

For the

And Paul knowing that one part of them belongs to the Sadducees, and another to the Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men, brethren, I am a Pharisee, a son of the Pharisees: concerning the hope and the resurrection of the dead I am judged.

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

And now for the hope of the promise which is from God to our fathers, I stand being judged:

This chain

Therefore I, the prisoner in the Lord, exhort you to walk worthily of the calling with which you are called,

for which I am an ambassador in chain; in order that in it I may preach boldly, as it behooves me to speak.

So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the pretorian army, and to all the rest;

Salutation of me Paul with my own hand. Remember my bonds. Grace be with you.

but now having been made manifest through the appearing of Jesus Christ our Saviour, the one having indeed destroyed death, and lighted up life and immortality through the gospel,

in whom I suffer affliction as an evil-doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.

I exhort you concerning my son, whom I begat in my bonds, Onesimus,

General references

So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the pretorian army, and to all the rest;