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.|


In Context

17 It happened that after three days Paul called together those who were the leaders of the Jews. When they had come together, he said to them, |I, brothers, though I had done nothing against the people, or the customs of our fathers, still was delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans,

18 who, when they had examined me, desired to set me free, because there was no cause of death in me.

19 But when the Jews spoke against it, I was constrained to appeal to Caesar, not that I had anything about which to accuse my nation.

20 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.|

21 They 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.

22 But 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.|

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 Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

28:20For 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.

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 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.