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 later, he called the leading Jews together, and when they met he said to them, "Brothers, although I have done nothing against the People or our ancestral customs, I was handed over to the Romans as a prisoner from Jerusalem.

and so I have come without any demur when I was sent for. Now I want to know why you sent for me?"

For the

Then, finding half the Sanhedrin were Sadducees and the other half Pharisees, Paul shouted to them, "I am a Pharisee, brothers, the son of Pharisees! It is for the hope of the resurrection from the dead that I am on trial!"

and I cherish the same hope in God as they accept, namely that there is to be a resurrection of the just and the unjust.

To-day I am standing my trial for hoping in the promise made by God to our fathers,

This chain

For this reason I Paul, I whom Jesus has made a prisoner for the sake of you Gentiles ??2 for surely you have heard how the grace of God which was vouchsafed me in your interests has ordered it,

As the Lord's prisoner, then, I beg of you to live a life worthy of your calling,

for the sake of which I am in custody as its envoy. Pray that I may have freedom to declare it as I should.

throughout the whole of the praetorian guard and everywhere else it is recognized that I am imprisoned on account of my connexion with Christ,

This salutation is in my own hand, from Paul. 'Remember I am in prison. Grace be with you.'

and has now revealed in the appearance of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who has put down death and brought life and immortality to light by the gospel.

for which I have to suffer imprisonment as if I were a criminal. (But there is no prison for the word of God.)

I appeal to you on behalf of my spiritual son born while I was in prison. It is Onesimus!

General references

throughout the whole of the praetorian guard and everywhere else it is recognized that I am imprisoned on account of my connexion with Christ,