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 he called the chief men of the Jews together; and when they had convened, said to them, Men and brothers, having done nothing contrary to the people or to the customs of the fathers, I was delivered up from Jerusalem a prisoner into the hands of the Romans,

wherefore, being sent for I also came without objecting. I ask therefore for what reason you have sent for me?

For the

And Paul knowing that one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, cried in the Sanhedrim, Men and brothers, I am a Pharisee and the son of Pharisees; for the hope and resurrection of the dead am I under trial.

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

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

This chain

For this cause I Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ for you gentiles,

I THEREFORE, the prisoner of the Lord, exhort you to walk worthily of the call with which you were called,

in behalf of which I perform an embassy in bonds, that I may speak boldly in them, as I ought to speak.

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

The salutation with my hand, Paul's. Remember my bonds. The grace be with you.

but made known now through the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who destroyed death, and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel,

in which I suffer even to chains as an evil doer; but the word of God is not bound.

I request you for my son Onesimus, whom I obtained in my bonds,

General references

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