Acts 28:20
So for this reason I have called to see you and speak with you. It is because of the hope of Israel that I am bound with this chain.”
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.
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.”
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.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- this cause
- Acts 28:17; Acts 10:29, 33
- for the
- Acts 23:6; Acts 24:15; Acts 26:6, 7
- this chain
- That is, the chain with which he was bound to the "soldier that kept him;" (ver. 16;) a mode of custody which Dr. Lardner has shown was in use among the Romans. It is in exact conformity, therefore, with the truth of St. Paul's situation at this time, that he declares himself to be "an ambassador in a chain," [en halusis ,] (Eph 6:20;) and the exactness is the more remarkable, as [halusis ,] a chain is no where used in the singular number to express any other kind of custody.
- Acts 26:29; Ephesians 3:1; Ephesians 4:1; Ephesians 6:20; Philippians 1:13; Colossians 4:18; 2 Timothy 1:10; 2 Timothy 2:9; Philemon 1:10, 13