20For 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.


In Context

17 And after the third day, he called together the chief of the Jews. And when they were assembled, he said to them: Men, brethren, I, having done nothing against the people, or the custom of our fathers, was delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans;

18 Who, when they had examined me, would have released me, for that there was no cause of death in me;

19 But the Jews contradicting it, I was constrained to appeal unto Caesar; not that I had any thing to accuse my nation of.

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.

21 But they said to him: We neither received letters concerning thee from Judea, neither did any of the brethren that came hither, relate or speak any evil of thee.

22 But we desire to hear of thee what thou thinkest; for as concerning this sect, we know that it is every where contradicted.

Acts 28:20 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

28:20For 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.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

28:20For this reason I have asked to see you and talk with you. It is because of the hope of Israel that I am bound with this chain."

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

28:20For 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.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

28:20For this cause therefore I have called you to me to see and to speak to you; for on account of the hope of Israel I have this chain about me.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

28:20For 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.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

28:20For 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.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

28:20For 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.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

28:20for this cause, therefore, I called for you to see and to speak with you, for because of the hope of Israel with this chain I am bound.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

28:20For 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.