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

It happened that after three days Paul called together those who were the leaders of the Jews. When they had come together, he said to them, "I, brothers, though I had done nothing against the people, or the customs of our fathers, still was delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans,

Therefore also I came without complaint when I was sent for. I ask therefore, why did you send for me?"

For the

But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, "Men and brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. Concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!"

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

Now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers,

This chain

For this cause I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles,

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

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

so that it became evident to the whole palace guard, and to all the rest, that my bonds are in Christ;

The salutation of me, Paul, with my own hand: remember my bonds. Grace be with you. Amen.

but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the Good News.

in which I suffer hardship to the point of chains as a criminal. But God's word isn't chained.

I beg you for my child, whom I have become the father of in my chains, Onesimus,

General references

so that it became evident to the whole palace guard, and to all the rest, that my bonds are in Christ;