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

After three days Paul called together those who were the leading men of the Jews, and when they came together, he began saying to them, “Brethren, though I had done nothing against our people or the customs of our fathers, yet I was delivered as a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.

That is why I came without even raising any objection when I was sent for. So I ask for what reason you have sent for me.”

For the

But perceiving that one group were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, Paul began crying out in the Council, “Brethren, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees; I am on trial for the hope and resurrection of the dead!”

having a hope in God, which these men cherish themselves, that there shall certainly be a resurrection of both the righteous and the wicked.

And now I am standing trial for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers;

This chain

For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles—

Therefore I, the prisoner of the Lord, implore you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you have been called,

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

so that my

imprisonment in the cause of Christ has become well known throughout the whole praetorian guard and to everyone else,

I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand. Remember my

imprisonment. Grace be with you.

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

for which I suffer hardship even to imprisonment as a criminal; but the word of God is not imprisoned.

I appeal to you for my child

Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my imprisonment,

General references

so that my

imprisonment in the cause of Christ has become well known throughout the whole praetorian guard and to everyone else,