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Acts 28:20

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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.

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Acts 28:20 in other translations

For this cause therefore I asked to see you and to speak with you. For because of the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.”

Acts 28:20 · World English Bible

Acts 28:20 in context

  1. 18who, when they had examined me, desired to set me at liberty, because there was no cause of death in me.
  2. 19But when the Jews spake against it, I was constrained to appeal unto Cæsar; not that I had aught whereof to accuse my nation.
  3. 20For 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.
  4. 21And they said unto him, We neither received letters from Judæa concerning thee, nor did any of the brethren come hither and report or speak any harm of thee.
  5. 22But we desire to hear of thee what thou thinkest: for as concerning this sect, it is known to us that everywhere it is spoken against.