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 leaders of the Jews. When they had gathered he said to them: “Brothers, although I have done nothing against our people or the customs of our ancestors, I was delivered as a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.

That’s why I came without any objection when I was sent for. So I ask: Why did you send for me?”

For the

When Paul realized that one part of them were Sadducees and the other part were Pharisees, he cried out in the Sanhedrin, “Brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees! I am being judged because of the hope of the resurrection of the dead!”

And I have a hope in God, which these men themselves also accept, that there is going to be a resurrection,

both of the righteous and the unrighteous.

And now I stand on trial for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers,

This chain

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

Therefore I, the prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk worthy of the calling you have received,

For this I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I might be bold enough in Him to speak as I should.

so that it has become known throughout the whole imperial guard, and to everyone else, that my imprisonment is in the cause of Christ.

This greeting is in my own hand—Paul. Remember my imprisonment. Grace be with you.

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

I suffer for it to the point of being bound like a criminal, but God’s message is not bound.

appeal to you for my son, Onesimus.

I fathered

him while I was in chains.

General references

so that it has become known throughout the whole imperial guard, and to everyone else, that my imprisonment is in the cause of Christ.