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20 I asked you to come here today so we could get acquainted and I could tell you that it is because I believe the Messiah[a] has come that I am bound with this chain.”

21 They replied, “We have heard nothing against you! We have had no letters from Judea or reports from those arriving from Jerusalem.[b] 22 But we want to hear what you believe, for the only thing we know about these Christians is that they are denounced everywhere!”

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 28:20 the Messiah, literally, “the hope of Israel.” But perhaps he is referring here, as in his other defenses, to his belief in the resurrection of the dead.
  2. Acts 28:21 from Jerusalem, implied.

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