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 it fortuned, after three days, that Paul called the chief of the Jews together. And when they were come, he said unto them, "Men and brethren, though I have committed no thing against the people, or laws of our fathers: yet was I delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.

therefore came I unto you without saying nay, as soon as I was sent for. I ask therefore: for what intent have ye sent for me?"

For the

When Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, "Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee. Of hope, and of resurrection from death I am judged."

and have hope towards God, that the same resurrection from death, which they themselves look for also, shall be both of just and unjust.

And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers:

This chain

For this cause, I Paul the servant of Jesus Christ am in bonds for your sakes, which are heathen -

I therefore which am in bonds for the Lord's sake, exhort you, that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,

whereof I am a messenger in bonds, that therein I may speak freely, as it becometh me to speak.

So that my bonds in Christ are manifest throughout all the judgment hall: and in all other places;

The salutation by the hand of me, Paul. Remember my bonds. Grace be with you, Amen. {Sent from Rome by Tychicus and Onesimus.}

but is now declared openly by the appearing of our saviour Jesus Christ, which hath put away death, and hath brought life and immortality unto light through the gospel,

wherein I suffer trouble as an evil doer, even unto bonds. But the word of God was not bound.

I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I begat in my bonds,

General references

So that my bonds in Christ are manifest throughout all the judgment hall: and in all other places;