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Acts 28:20 KJV
Acts · chapter 28 · verse 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.Acts 28:20 · King James Version
Acts 28:20 in context
18Who, when they had examined me, would have let me go, because there was no cause of death in me.
19But when the Jews spake against it, I was constrained to appeal unto Caesar; not that I had ought to accuse my nation of.
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.
21And they said unto him, We neither received letters out of Judaea concerning thee, neither any of the brethren that came shewed or spake any harm of thee.
22But we desire to hear of thee what thou thinkest: for as concerning this sect, we know that every where it is spoken against.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- calledparakaleōto call to one's side, call for, summon, to address, speak to, , which may be done in the…G3870 →
- IsraelisraēlIsrael = " he shall be a prince of God" , the name given to the patriarch Jacob…G2474 →
- causeaitiacause, reason, cause for which one is worthy of punishment, crime, charge of crime…G156 →
- hopeelpisexpectation of evil, fear, expectation of good, hope, in the Christian sense, joyful and…G1680 →
- seeeidōto see, to perceive with the eyes, to perceive by any of the senses, to perceive, notice…G1492 →
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Paul, with a great deal of expense and hazard, is brought a prisoner to Rome, and when he has come nobody appears to prosecute him or lay any thing to his charge; but he must call his own cause; and here he represents it to the chief of the Jews at Rome.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 17-22