Acts 28:20

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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, Paul called together those who are the principal men of the Jews, and they having come together, he said unto them: 'Men, brethren, I -- having done nothing contrary to the people, or to the customs of the fathers -- a prisoner from Jerusalem, was delivered up to the hands of the Romans;

therefore also without gainsaying I came, having been sent for; I ask, therefore, for what matter ye did send for me?'

For the

and Paul having known that the one part are Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, cried out in the sanhedrim, 'Men, brethren, I am a Pharisee -- son of a Pharisee -- concerning hope and rising again of dead men I am judged.'

having hope toward God, which they themselves also wait for, that there is about to be a rising again of the dead, both of righteous and unrighteous;

and now for the hope of the promise made to the fathers by God, I have stood judged,

This chain

For this cause, I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you the nations,

Call upon you, then, do I -- the prisoner of the Lord -- to walk worthily of the calling with which ye were called,

for which I am an ambassador in a chain, that in it I may speak freely -- as it behoveth me to speak.

so that my bonds have become manifest in Christ in the whole praetorium, and to the other places -- all,

The salutation by the hand of me, Paul; remember my bonds; the grace is with you. Amen.

and was made manifest now through the manifestation of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who indeed did abolish death, and did enlighten life and immortality through the good news,

in which I suffer evil -- unto bonds, as an evil-doer, but the word of God hath not been bound;

I entreat thee concerning my child -- whom I did beget in my bonds -- Onesimus,

General references

so that my bonds have become manifest in Christ in the whole praetorium, and to the other places -- all,