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

Now it came to pass that after three days Paul called together the principal persons of the Jews. And when they were assembled, he said unto them, Men and brethren, though I have done nothing contrary to the people and the customs of our ancestors, yet have I been delivered up a prisoner into the hands of the Romans.

Wherefore also without a word, I came when invited: I beg to know therefore for what purpose ye have sent for me?

For the

Now when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried in the sanhedrim, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: for the hope and resurrection of the dead am I brought to this bar.

and having hope in God, the same which they also profess to look for, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and of the unjust.

And this moment for the hope of the promise made of God to our fathers am I standing here to be judged:

This chain

FOR this cause [am] I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,

I THEN, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you, that ye walk worthy of the vocation with which ye are called,

for which I am an ambassador in bonds; that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

so that my bonds are manifest in Christ through the whole palace, and all other places;

The salutation of Paul with mine own hand. Remember my chains. Grace be with you. Amen.

but is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and brought to light life and immortality by the gospel:

for which I suffer affliction, even unto chains as a malefactor; but the word of God is not bound.

I entreat thee for my son, whom I have begotten during my bonds, Onesimus:

General references

so that my bonds are manifest in Christ through the whole palace, and all other places;