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 three days later he called the leading Jews together, and when they were come together he said to them. "Brothers, I was delivered a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans, though I had done nothing against the people or the customs of your fathers.

"I ask therefore why you sent for me."

For the

Then perceiving that half the Sanhedrin were Sadducees and the other half Pharisee, he cried out in the Sanhedrin. "Brothers, I am a Pharisee, the son of Pharisees! It is for the hope of the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial!"

"and having hope toward God, which these also themselves look for, that there is to be a resurrection both of the just and the unjust.

"Today I am standing trial because of the hope of the promise made by God to our ancestors,

This chain

For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles??2 for surely you have heard of the stewardship of the grace of God entrusted to me for you?

I summon you then, I the prisoner in the Lord, to live lives worthy of the calling to which you were called.

and in chains. Pray that I may proclaim it boldly as I ought to speak.

Throughout the whole Praetorian guard and among all the others it has become plain that these chains of mine are for the sake of Christ;

I, Paul, add this farewell in my own handwriting. Do not forget these chains of mine. Grace be with you.

This has now been made manifest through the appearing of our Saviour Christ Jesus, who has put an end to death, and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.

For preaching it I am suffering, and am even put in chains as a malefactor.

I beseech you for my son, Onesimus, whom I have begotten in these chains.

General references

Throughout the whole Praetorian guard and among all the others it has become plain that these chains of mine are for the sake of Christ;