Acts 28:20
For this cause therefore have I called for you, to see , and to speak with : because that for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.
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Context
18 Who, when they had examined me, would have let go, because there was no cause of death in me.
19 But when the Jews spake against , I was constrained to appeal unto Caesar; not that I had ought to accuse my nation of.
20 For this cause therefore have I called for you, to see , and to speak with : because that for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.
21 And they said unto him, We neither received letters out of Judaea concerning you, neither any of the brethren that came shewed or spake any harm of you.
22 But we desire to hear of you what you thinkest: for as concerning this sect, we know that every where it is spoken against.