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, after three days, that he called together those who were chief men of the Jews; and, when they came together, he said to them, "Brethren, having done nothing contrary to the people, or to our ancestral customs, I was delivered a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans;

Wherefore, also, having been sent for, I came without gainsaying. I ask, therefore, with what intent ye sent for me."

For the

And Paul, perceiving that the one part was of the Sadducees, and the other of the Pharisees, was crying out in the Sanhedrin, "Brethren, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees; concerning the hope and resurrection from the dead, I am being judged."

having hope toward God??hich these themselves also are looking for??hat there will be a resurrection, both of the righteous and unrighteous.

And now, for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers, I have taken my stand to be judged;

This chain

For this cause I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus in behalf of you gentiles,

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

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

that my bonds became manifest in Christ in the whole praetorium, and to all the rest;

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

but now made manifest through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus; Who abolished death, and brought to light life and incorruption through the Gospel;

wherein I am suffering hardship, even to bonds, as a malefactor; but the Word of God has not become bound.

I beseech you for my child, whom I begat in my bonds, Onesimus,

General references

that my bonds became manifest in Christ in the whole praetorium, and to all the rest;