Acts 28:20 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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.

More versions

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 which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains among all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah, which were carried away captive unto Babylon.

Acts 10:29

wherefore also I came without gainsaying, when I was sent for. I ask therefore with what intent ye sent for me.

Acts 10:33

Forthwith therefore I sent to thee; and thou hast well done that thou art come. Now therefore we are all here present in the sight of God, to hear all things that have been commanded thee of the Lord.

Acts 21:33

Then the chief captain came near, and laid hold on him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains; and inquired 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, Brethren, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees: touching the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.

Acts 24:15

having hope toward God, which these also themselves look for, that there shall be a resurrection both of the just and unjust.

Acts 26:29

And Paul said, I would to God, that whether with little or with much, not thou only, but also all that hear me this day, might become such as I am, except these bonds.

Acts 28:17

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

Ephesians 3:1

For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus in behalf of you Gentiles,--

Ephesians 4:1

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beseech you to walk worthily of the calling wherewith ye were called,

Ephesians 6:20

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

Philippians 1:13

so that my bonds became manifest in Christ throughout the whole praetorian guard, and to all the rest;

Colossians 4:18

The salutation of me Paul with mine own hand. Remember my bonds. Grace be with you.

2 Timothy 1:10

but hath now been manifested by the appearing of our Saviour Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and incorruption to light through the gospel,

2 Timothy 2:9

wherein I suffer hardship unto bonds, as a malefactor; but the word of God is not bound.

Philemon 1:10

I beseech thee for my child, whom I have begotten in my bonds, Onesimus,

Philemon 1:13

whom I would fain have kept with me, that in thy behalf he might minister unto me in the bonds of the gospel: