Parallel Verses
Moffatt New Testament
This is my reason for asking to see you and have a word with you. I am wearing this chain because I share Israel's hope."
New American Standard Bible
For this reason, therefore, I
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
For this reason I’ve asked to see you and speak to you. In fact, it is for the hope of Israel that I’m wearing this chain.”
International Standard Version
That's why I asked to see you and speak with you, since it is for the hope of Israel that I'm wearing this chain."
A Conservative Version
Because of this reason therefore I summoned you to see and to speak with me, for because of the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.
American Standard Version
For this cause therefore did I entreat you to see and to speak with me : for because of the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.
Amplified
For this reason I have asked to see you and talk with you, since it is for the sake of the hope of Israel (the Messiah, the resurrection) that I am bound with this chain.”
An Understandable Version
It was for this reason that I requested to see you and talk with you, for I am wearing this chain because of the hope held by the Israelites."
Anderson New Testament
For this reason, I called for you, that I might see you and speak to you; for on account of the hope of Israel, I am bound with this chain.
Bible in Basic English
But for this reason I sent for you, to see and have talk with you: for because of the hope of Israel I am in these chains.
Common New Testament
For this reason therefore I have asked to see you and speak with you, since it is because of the hope of Israel that I am bound with this chain."
Daniel Mace New Testament
for this reason I desir'd to see and talk with you; it being for the expectation of Israel that I am subject to this chain."
Darby Translation
For this cause therefore I have called you to me to see and to speak to you; for on account of the hope of Israel I have this chain about me.
Godbey New Testament
Then for this cause I have called you, to see you, and talk to you: for on account of the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.
Goodspeed New Testament
That is why I asked to see you and speak with you, for it is on account of Israel's hope that I have to wear this chain."
John Wesley New Testament
For this cause therefore have I intreated, to see and speak with you; for it is on account of the hope of Israel, that I am bound with this chain.
Julia Smith Translation
For this cause therefore I besought to see you, and to speak: for, for the hope of Israel am I surrounded by this chain.
King James 2000
For this cause therefore have I called for you, to see you, and to speak with you: because for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Therefore for this reason I have requested to see you and to speak with [you], for because of the hope of Israel I am wearing this chain!"
Modern King James verseion
For this cause, then, I called for you, to see and to speak with you. For I have this chain around me for the hope of Israel.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For this cause have I called for you, even to see you, and to speak with you. Because that for the hope of Israel, I am bound with this chain."
Montgomery New Testament
This is the reason why I begged you to see and speak with me. For because of the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain."
NET Bible
So for this reason I have asked to see you and speak with you, for I am bound with this chain because of the hope of Israel."
New Heart English Bible
For this cause therefore I asked to see you and to speak with you. For because of the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain."
Noyes New Testament
For this reason therefore I have called for you, to see you and speak to you; for it is on account of the hope of Israel that I am bound with this chain.
Sawyer New Testament
For this reason, therefore, I have called you to see and converse with you, because I am loaded with this chain on account of the hope of Israel.
The Emphasized Bible
For this cause, therefore, have I called for you, to see and to speak with you; for, on account of the hope of Israel, this chain, have I about me!
Thomas Haweis New Testament
For this cause therefore have I invited you hither, to see and to converse with you; for on account of the hope of Israel am I bound with this chain.
Twentieth Century New Testament
This, then, is my reason for urging you to come to see me and talk with me; because it is for the sake of the Hope of Israel that I am here in chains."
Webster
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.
Weymouth New Testament
For these reasons, then, I have invited you here, that I might see you and speak to you; for it is for the sake of Him who is the hope of Israel that this chain hangs upon me."
Williams New Testament
Now it is for this reason that I invited you to come, namely, to see you and speak with you, for it is on account of Israel's hope that I am wearing this chain."
World English Bible
For this cause therefore I asked to see you and to speak with you. For because of the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain."
Worrell New Testament
For this cause, therefore, I called for you, to see and to speak with you: for, on account of the hope of Israel, I am encompassed with this chain."
Worsley New Testament
For this reason therefore I desired to see and to speak to you: because that for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.
Youngs Literal Translation
for this cause, therefore, I called for you to see and to speak with you, for because of the hope of Israel with this chain I am bound.'
Topics
Interlinear
Dia
Houtos
οὗτος οὗτοι αὕτη αὕται
Houtos
Usage: 258
Parakaleo
heneka
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in Acts 28:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
Paul And The Jewish Community In Rome
19 But the Jews objected, and so I was obliged to appeal to Caesar ??not that I had any charge to bring against my own nation. 20 This is my reason for asking to see you and have a word with you. I am wearing this chain because I share Israel's hope." 21 They replied, "We have had no letters about you from Judaea, and no brother has come here with any bad report or story about you.
Cross References
Acts 21:33
Then the commander came up and seized him; he ordered him to be bound with a couple of chains, and asked "Who is he?" and "What has he done?"
Acts 23:6
Then, finding half the Sanhedrin were Sadducees and the other half Pharisees, Paul shouted to them, "I am a Pharisee, brothers, the son of Pharisees! It is for the hope of the resurrection from the dead that I am on trial!"
Acts 26:6-7
To-day I am standing my trial for hoping in the promise made by God to our fathers,
Acts 26:29
"Long or short," said Paul, "I would to God that not only you but all my hearers to-day could be what I am ??barring these chains!"
Ephesians 6:20
for the sake of which I am in custody as its envoy. Pray that I may have freedom to declare it as I should.
Acts 10:29
and so I have come without any demur when I was sent for. Now I want to know why you sent for me?"
Acts 10:33
So I sent for you at once, and you have been kind enough to come. Well now, here we are all present before God to listen to what the Lord has commanded you to say."
Acts 24:15
and I cherish the same hope in God as they accept, namely that there is to be a resurrection of the just and the unjust.
Acts 28:17
Three days later, he called the leading Jews together, and when they met he said to them, "Brothers, although I have done nothing against the People or our ancestral customs, I was handed over to the Romans as a prisoner from Jerusalem.
Ephesians 3:1
For this reason I Paul, I whom Jesus has made a prisoner for the sake of you Gentiles ??2 for surely you have heard how the grace of God which was vouchsafed me in your interests has ordered it,
Ephesians 4:1
As the Lord's prisoner, then, I beg of you to live a life worthy of your calling,
Philippians 1:13
throughout the whole of the praetorian guard and everywhere else it is recognized that I am imprisoned on account of my connexion with Christ,
Colossians 4:18
This salutation is in my own hand, from Paul. 'Remember I am in prison. Grace be with you.'
2 Timothy 1:10
and has now revealed in the appearance of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who has put down death and brought life and immortality to light by the gospel.
2 Timothy 2:9
for which I have to suffer imprisonment as if I were a criminal. (But there is no prison for the word of God.)