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Acts 28:20 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" 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.” "

Acts 28:20

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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.”

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Acts 28:1

"When we had escaped, then they learned that the island was called Malta."

Acts 28:2

"The natives showed us uncommon kindness; for they kindled a fire and received us all, because of the present rain and because of the cold."

Acts 28:3

"But when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and laid them on the fire, a viper came out because of the heat and fastened on his hand."

Acts 28:4

"When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he has escaped from the sea, yet Justice has not allowed to live.”"

Acts 28:5

"However he shook off the creature into the fire, and wasn’t harmed."

Acts 28:6

"But they expected that he would have swollen or fallen down dead suddenly, but when they watched for a long time and saw nothing bad happen to him, they changed their minds and said that he was a god."

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