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

three days after, Paul sent for the chief of the Jews: and when they were assembled, he said to them, "my brethren, tho' I have done nothing against the Jews, or against the customs of our fathers, I was made a prisoner at Jerusalem, and put into the hands of the Romans:

for which reason I came without demur, as soon as I knew your message: I ask therefore upon what account you sent for me?

For the

But as Paul knew that one part of the Sanhedrim were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out, my brethren, "I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee, and I am now prosecuted for believing the resurrection of the dead."

I have the same expectations from the DEITY, which they themselves entertain, that of the resurrection both of the just and of the unjust.

and now I stand arraign'd for expecting the accomplishment of the divine promise made to our fathers,

This chain

This it is that makes me Paul a prisoner for Jesus Christ upon your account, O Gentiles;

I therefore the prisoner for the Lord, beseech you to live suitably to the offers that have been made to you:

for which I am an embassador, tho' in chains: that I may duely represent it to the full.

so that the whole court and publick are well appriz'd that I am a prisoner upon the account of Jesus Christ.

have received from the Lord. I Paul salute you, and this salutation I write with my own hand. remember my bonds. grace be with you. AMEN.

has now been display'd by the coming of Jesus Christ our saviour, who has defeated the power of death, by bringing a life of immortality to light thro' the gospel.

for which I suffer even the chains of a malefactor: but the word of God is not so confin'd.

and intercede with you for my son Onesimus, whom I made a convert whilst I was in chains.

General references

so that the whole court and publick are well appriz'd that I am a prisoner upon the account of Jesus Christ.