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Acts 28:20

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.

KJV

διὰ ταύτην οὖν τὴν αἰτίαν παρεκάλεσα ὑμᾶς ἰδεῖν καὶ προσλαλῆσαι· εἵνεκεν γὰρ τῆς ἐλπίδος τοῦ Ἰσραὴλ τὴν ἅλυσιν ταύτην περίκειμαι.

Greek NT

Propter hanc igitur causam rogavi vos videre, et alloqui. Propter spem enim Israël catena hac circumdatus sum.

Vulgate

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.

ASV

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.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

16 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αἰτία
aitia
noun · 20×
γάρ
gar
conjunction · 1036×
διά
dia
preposition · 633×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
οὖν
oun
conjunction · 489×
οὗτος
outos
demonstrative · 1380×
παρακαλέω
parakaleo
verb · 108×
περίκειμαι
perikeimai
verb · 5×
προσλαλέω
proslaleo
verb · 2×
ἅλυσις
alusis
noun · 11×
ἐλπίς
elpis
noun · 53×
ἕνεκα
eneka
preposition · 26×
Ἰσραήλ
israel
noun · 68×
o
article · 19778×
ὁράω
orao
verb · 682×
ὑμεῖς
umeis
pronoun · 1828×

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

2. Does not behave itself unseemly. Nay, why, says he, do I say, she 'is not puffed up,' when she is so far from that feeling, that in suffering the most shameful things for him whom she loves, she does not even count the thing an unseemliness? Again, he did not say, she suffers unseemliness but bears the shame nobly, but, she does not even entertain any sense at all of the sha…

Cross-references

  • 2Tim 1:16 — The Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus; for he oft refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain:
  • 2Tim 2:9 — Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.
  • Acts 21:33 — Then the chief captain came near, and took him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains; and demanded who he was, and what he had done.
  • Acts 21:33 — Then the chief captain came near, and took him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains; and demanded who he was, and what he had done.
  • Acts 23:6 — But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection o
  • Acts 23:6 — But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection o
  • Acts 24:15 — And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.
  • Acts 24:21 — Except it be for this one voice, that I cried standing among them, Touching the resurrection of the dead I am called in question by you this day.
  • Acts 26:6 — And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers:
  • Acts 26:6 — And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers:
  • Acts 26:29 — And Paul said, I would to God, that not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, were both almost, and altogether such as I am, except these bonds.
  • Eph 2:12 — That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
  • Eph 3:1 — For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,
  • Eph 4:1 — I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,
  • Eph 6:20 — For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
  • Eph 6:20 — For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
  • Jer 14:8 — O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night?
  • Jer 40:1 — The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains among all that were carried away ca
  • Phil 1:13 — So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all other places;