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

And after three days it happened that Paul called together those being chief of the Jews. And they coming together, he said to them, Men, brothers, I did nothing against the people or customs of our fathers. I was delivered a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans

Therefore I came without complaint, being sent for. I ask, then, for what reason have you sent for me.

For the

But when Paul saw that the one part were Sadducees and the other part Pharisees, he cried out in the sanhedrin, Men! Brothers! I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee! I am being judged because of the hope and resurrection of the dead.

And I have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.

And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made to our fathers by God,

This chain

For this cause, I, Paul, am the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you nations,

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beseech you that you walk worthy of the calling with which you are called,

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

so that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all other places.

The salutation of Paul, by my own hand. Remember my bonds. Grace be with you. Amen.

But it is now having been manifested by the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ, who has made death of no effect, bringing life and immortality to light through the gospel;

in which I suffer ill as an evildoer, even to bonds. But the Word of God is not chained.

I entreat you for my child Onesimus, whom I have fathered in my bonds,

General references

so that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all other places.