Acts 28:20
World English Bible (WEB)
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.”
In context
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 every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- 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.”
- KJV King James Version
- 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.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- So for this reason I have called to see you and speak with you. It is because of the hope of Israel that I am bound with this chain.”
- ASV American Standard Version
- 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.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- for 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.'
- DBY Darby Translation
- For 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.
- WBS Webster Bible
- 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.