Acts 28:20

For this cause therefore have I called for you to see you, and to speak with you [R. V."did I intreat you to see and to speak with me"] As the marginal note in the R. V.shews, the A. V. may be a correct rendering of the Greek, and it is more probable that Paul would say that hewished to speak to the Jews than that he wished themto come and speak with him.

because that for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain The hope of Israel is the general expectation of Messiah. In Jesus Paul believed that the expected Saviour had appeared, and for preaching this he had been attacked and made a prisoner. He held the same faith as all the Jews, only going in this matter farther than they in that he believed the ancient promise was now fulfilled. We can see from the reply of the Jews that they understood his position exactly.