Acts 28:20 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

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.

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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."

Acts 28:20 Cross References

Jeremiah 40:1

The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, after that Neb´uzar-a´dan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains among all that were carried away captive of Jerusalem and Judah, which were carried away captive unto Babylon.

Acts 10:29

Therefore came I unto you without gainsaying, as soon as I was sent for: I ask therefore for what intent ye have sent for me?

Acts 10:33

Immediately therefore I sent to thee; and thou hast well done that thou art come. Now therefore are we all here present before God, to hear all things that are commanded thee of God.

Acts 21:33

Then the chief captain came near, and took him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains; and demanded who he was, and what he had done.

Acts 23:6

But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.

Acts 24:15

and have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.

Acts 26:29

And Paul said, I would to God, that not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, were both almost, and altogether such as I am, except these bonds.

Acts 28:17

And it came to pass, that after three days Paul called the chief of the Jews together: and when they were come together, he said unto them, Men and brethren, though I have committed nothing against the people, or customs of our fathers, yet was I delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans:

Ephesians 3:1

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

Ephesians 4:1

I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,

Ephesians 6:20

for which I am an ambassador in bonds; that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

Philippians 1:13

so that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all other places;

Colossians 4:18

The salutation by the hand of me Paul. Remember my bonds. Grace be with you. Amen.

2 Timothy 1:10

but is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel:

2 Timothy 2:9

wherein I suffer trouble, as an evildoer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.

Philemon 1:10

I beseech thee for my son Ones´imus, whom I have begotten in my bonds:

Philemon 1:13

whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel: