Acts 28:20

Modern English Version

For this reason I have asked to see you and speak with you, because I am bound with this chain for the hope of Israel.”

Cross References

Jeremiah 40:1

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

Acts 10:29

So when I was sent for, I came without question. Therefore I ask why you have sent for me.”

Acts 10:33

So immediately I sent for you, and you have done well to come. Now therefore we are all here, present before God, to hear everything the Lord has commanded you.”

Acts 21:33

Then the commander came and arrested him, and ordered that he be bound with two chains. Then he asked who he was and what he had done.

Acts 23:6

Then Paul, knowing that one sect were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, cried out among the Sanhedrin, “Brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of a Pharisee. I am being judged for my hope in the resurrection of the dead.”

Acts 24:15

I have hope in God that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and the unjust, which they also expect.

Acts 26:29

Paul said, “I pray to God that not only you, whether in a short or long time, but all who hear me this day, might become what I am, except for these chains.”

Acts 28:17

After three days Paul called the leaders of the Jews together. When they had assembled, he said to them, “Brothers, having done nothing contrary to our people or the customs of our fathers, I was delivered as a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.

Ephesians 3:1

For this reason I, Paul, am the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles.

Ephesians 4:1

I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, exhort you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you were called.

Ephesians 6:20

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

Philippians 1:13

so that my imprisonments in Christ have become known throughout the entire palace guard and to all the rest.

Colossians 4:18

I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand. Remember my chains. Grace be with you. Amen.

2 Timothy 1:10

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

2 Timothy 2:9

in which I suffer trouble like a criminal, even with chains. But the word of God is not bound.

Philemon 1:10

I appeal to you on behalf of my son Onesimus, whose father I have become in my imprisonment,

Philemon 1:13

I wanted to keep him with me, so that in your place he might serve me during my imprisonment for the gospel.