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Acts 28:20

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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.”

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Acts 28:20 in other translations

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.

Acts 28:20 · American Standard Version

Acts 28:20 in context

  1. 18who, when they had examined me, desired to set me free, because there was no cause of death in me.
  2. 19But when the Jews spoke against it, I was constrained to appeal to Caesar, not that I had anything about which to accuse my nation.
  3. 20For 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.”
  4. 21They said to him, “We neither received letters from Judea concerning you, nor did any of the brothers come here and report or speak any evil of you.
  5. 22But we desire to hear from you what you think. For, as concerning this sect, it is known to us that everywhere it is spoken against.”