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Acts 28:20

Weymouth NT

For these reasons, then, I have invited you here, that I might see you and speak to you; for it is for the sake of Him who is the hope of Israel that this chain hangs upon me.«

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So for this reason, when sent for, I came without raising any objection. I therefore ask why you sent for me.«

»Immediately, therefore, I sent to you, and I thank you heartily for having come. That is why all of us are now assembled here in God's presence, to listen to what the Lord has commanded you to say.«

Then the Tribune, making his way to him, arrested him, and, having ordered him to be secured with two chains, proceeded to ask who he was and what he had been doing.

Noticing, however, that the Sanhedrin consisted partly of Sadducees and partly of Pharisees, he called out loudly among them, »Brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of Pharisees. It is because of my hope of a resurrection of the dead that I am on my trial.«

and having a hope directed towards God, which my accusers themselves also entertain, that before long there will be a resurrection both of the righteous and the unrighteous.

»My prayer to God, whether briefly or at length,« replied Paul, »would be that not only you but all who are my hearers to-day, might become such as I am–except these chains.«

After one complete day he invited the leading men among the Jews to meet him; and, when they were come together, he said to them, »As for me, brethren, although I had done nothing prejudicial to our people or contrary to the customs of our forefathers, I was handed over as a prisoner from Jerusalem into the power of the Romans.

For this reason I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles–

I, then, the prisoner for the Master's sake, entreat you to live and act as becomes those who have received the call that you have received–

to spread which I am an ambassador in chains–so that when telling them I may speak out boldly as I ought.

And thus it has become notorious among all the Imperial Guards, and everywhere, that it is for the sake of Christ that I am a prisoner;

I Paul add with my own hand this final greeting. Be mindful of me in my imprisonment. Grace be with you.

but which has now been plainly revealed through the Appearing of our Saviour, Christ Jesus. He has put an end to death and has brought Life and Immortality to light through the Good News,

For preaching the Good News I suffer, and am even put in chains, as if I were a criminal: yet the word of God is not imprisoned.

I entreat you on behalf of my own child whose father I have become while in my chains–I mean Onesimus.

It was my wish to keep him at my side for him to attend to my wants, as your representative, during my imprisonment for the Good News.




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