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 came to pass that after three days he called together the chief men of the Jews, and when they had met he said to them, Brethren, I, though I had done nothing against the people, or the customs of our fathers, was delivered up a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans;

Wherefore I came without objection, when sent for. I ask therefore, for what reason did ye send for me?

For the

But Paul, perceiving one part to be Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, cried aloud in the council, Brethren! I am a Pharisee, the son of Pharisees; for the hope of the resurrection of the dead I am now tried.

having a hope in God, which they themselves also entertain, that there will be a resurrection both of the righteous and the unrighteous.

And now I stand on trial for the hope of the promise made by God to the fathers,

This chain

For this cause [I bend my knees], I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you gentiles;

I exhort you, therefore, I the prisoner in the Lord, to walk worthily of the calling with which ye were called,

in behalf of which I am an ambassador in chains; that I may proclaim it boldly, as I ought to speak.

so that my bonds have become known in connection with Christ in the whole camp of the imperial guards, and to all the rest;

The salutation by the hand of me, Paul. Remember my bonds. Grace be with you.

but is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and incorruption to light through the gospel,

in which I suffer hardship even unto bonds as an evildoer; but the word of God is not bound.

I beseech thee for my child, whom I begot in my bonds, Onesimus;

General references

so that my bonds have become known in connection with Christ in the whole camp of the imperial guards, and to all the rest;