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.In other versions
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
But for this reason I sent for you, to see and have talk with you: for because of the hope of Israel I am in these chains.
BBE
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.
DBY
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."
WEB
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.'
YLT
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.
ENG
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.
WBT
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.”
BSB
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.