Acts 28:20 - The Scriptures 2009

²⁰ “This therefore is the reason I called for you, to see you and speak with you. It is because of the expectation of Yisra’ĕl that I am bound with this chain.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ This is the reason therefore why I have begged to see you and to talk with you, since it is because of the Hope of Israel (the Messiah) that I am bound with this chain.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ 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.

Common English Bible

²⁰ This is why I asked to see you and speak with you: it’s because of the hope of Israel that I am bound with this chain.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ And so, because of this, I requested to see you and to speak to you. For it is because of the hope of Israel that I am encircled with this chain."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ For this cause therefore I desired to see you, and to speak to you. Because that for the hope of Israel, I am bound with this chain.

Acts 28:20 Cross References

Jeremiah 40:1

The word that came to Yirmeyahu from יהוה after Neḇuzaraḏan, chief of the guard, had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him bound in chains among all the exiles from Yerushalayim and Yehuḏah, who were being exiled to Baḇel.

Acts 10:29

That is why I came without hesitation when I was sent for. So I ask, why have you sent for me?

Acts 10:33

So I sent to you immediately, and you have done well to come. And now, we are all present before Elohim, to hear all that you have been commanded by Elohim.

Acts 21:33

Then the commander came near and took him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains, and was asking who he was and what he had done.

Acts 23:6

Now Sha’ul, perceiving that one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, cried out in the council, “Men, brothers, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee, I am being judged concerning the expectation and resurrection of the dead!”

Acts 24:15

having an expectation in Elohim, which they themselves also wait for, that there is to be a resurrection of the dead, both of the righteous and the unrighteous.

Acts 26:29

And Sha’ul said, “Much or little, I pray to Elohim that not only you, but also all who hear me today, might become such as I also am, except for these chains.”

Acts 28:17

And it came to be after three days that Sha’ul called the leaders of the Yehuḏim together. And when they had come together, he said to them, “Men, brothers, though I have done none at all against our people or the practices of our fathers, I was delivered as a prisoner from Yerushalayim into the hands of the Romans,

Ephesians 3:1

Because of this I, Sha’ul, am the prisoner of יהושע Messiah on behalf of you nations –

Ephesians 4:1

I call upon you therefore, I the prisoner of the Master, to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,

Ephesians 6:20

for which I am an envoy in chains, that in it I might speak boldly, as I should speak.

Philippians 1:13

so that it has become known to all the palace guard, and to all the rest, that my chains are in Messiah;

Colossians 4:18

This greeting is in my own hand – Sha’ul. Remember my chains. Favour be with you. Amĕn.

2 Timothy 1:10

but now revealed by the appearing of our Saviour יהושע Messiah, who indeed abolished death and brought life and incorruptibility to light through the Good News,

2 Timothy 2:9

for which I suffer hardship, as a criminal, unto chains, but the Word of Elohim is not chained.

Philemon 1:10

I appeal to you for my child Onesimos, whom I brought forth while in my chains,

Philemon 1:13

whom I wished to keep with me, that on your behalf he might serve me in my chains for the Good News.