Acts 28:20 - Revised Standard Version

²⁰ For this reason therefore I have asked to see you and speak with you, since it is because of the hope of Israel 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 Tagairtí Cros

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 took him bound in chains along with all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah who were being exiled to Babylon.

Acts 10:29

So when I was sent for, I came without objection. I ask then why you sent for me.”

Acts 10:33

So I sent to you at once, and you have been kind enough to come. Now therefore we are all here present in the sight of God, to hear all that you have been commanded by the Lord.”

Acts 21:33

Then the tribune came up and arrested him, and ordered him to be bound with two chains. He inquired who he was and what he had done.

Acts 23:6

But when Paul perceived that one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, “Brethren, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees; with respect to the hope and the resurrection of the dead I am on trial.”

Acts 24:15

having a hope in God which these themselves accept, that there will be a resurrection of both the just and the unjust.

Acts 26:29

And Paul said, “Whether short or long, I would to God that not only you but also all who hear me this day might become such as I am—except for these chains.”

Acts 28:17

After three days he called together the local leaders of the Jews; and when they had gathered, he said to them, “Brethren, though I had done nothing against the people or the customs of our fathers, yet I was delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.

Ephesians 3:1

For this reason I, Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles—

Ephesians 4:1

I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of the calling to which you have been called,

Ephesians 6:20

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

Philippians 1:13

so that it has become known throughout the whole praetorian guard and to all the rest that my imprisonment is for Christ;

Colossians 4:18

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

2 Timothy 1:10

and now has manifested through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.

2 Timothy 2:9

the gospel for which I am suffering and wearing fetters like a criminal. But the word of God is not fettered.

Philemon 1:10

I appeal to you for my child, Onesimus, whose father I have become in my imprisonment.

Philemon 1:13

I would have been glad to keep him with me, in order that he might serve me on your behalf during my imprisonment for the gospel;