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.
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Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.
For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers: …
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.
So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all other places;
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-22)Paul, with a great deal of expense and hazard, is brought a prisoner to Rome, and when he has come nobody appears to prosecute him or lay any thing to his charge; but he must call his own cause; and here he represents it to the chief of the Jews at Rome. It was not long since, by an edict of Claudius, all the Jews were banished from Rome, and kept out till his death; but, in the five years since t…
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