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Prisoners
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Acts 12:9And he went out and followed him. He didn’t know that what was being done by the angel was real, but thought he saw a vision.Acts 12:10When they were past the first and the second guard, they came to the iron gate that leads into the city, which opened to them by itself. They went out, and went down one street, and immediately the angel departed from him.Acts 12:11When Peter had come to himself, he said, “Now I truly know that the Lord has sent out his angel and delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from everything the Jewish people were expecting.”Acts 12:12Thinking about that, he came to the house of Mary, the mother of John whose surname was Mark, where many were gathered together and were praying.Acts 12:13When Peter knocked at the door of the gate, a maid named Rhoda came to answer.Acts 12:14When she recognized Peter’s voice, she didn’t open the gate for joy, but ran in, and reported that Peter was standing in front of the gate.Acts 12:15They said to her, “You are crazy!” But she insisted that it was so. They said, “It is his angel.”Acts 12:16But Peter continued knocking. When they had opened, they saw him, and were amazed.Acts 12:17But he, beckoning to them with his hand to be silent, declared to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. He said, “Tell these things to James, and to the brothers.” Then he departed, and went to another place.Acts 12:18Now as soon as it was day, there was no small stir among the soldiers about what had become of Peter.Acts 12:19When Herod had sought for him, and didn’t find him, he examined the guards, and commanded that they should be put to death. He went down from Judea to Caesarea, and stayed there.Acts 16:19But when her masters saw that the hope of their gain was gone, they seized Paul and Silas, and dragged them into the marketplace before the rulers.Acts 16:20When they had brought them to the magistrates, they said, “These men, being Jews, are agitating our city,Acts 16:21and set forth customs which it is not lawful for us to accept or to observe, being Romans.”Acts 16:22The multitude rose up together against them, and the magistrates tore their clothes off of them, and commanded them to be beaten with rods.Acts 16:23When they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely,Acts 16:24who, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison, and secured their feet in the stocks.Acts 16:25But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.Acts 16:26Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone’s bonds were loosened.Acts 16:27The jailer, being roused out of sleep and seeing the prison doors open, drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.Acts 16:28But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, “Don’t harm yourself, for we are all here!”Acts 16:29He called for lights and sprang in, and, fell down trembling before Paul and Silas,Acts 16:30and brought them out and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”Acts 16:31They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”Acts 16:32They spoke the word of the Lord to him, and to all who were in his house.Acts 16:33He took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes, and was immediately baptized, he and all his household.Acts 16:34He brought them up into his house, and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly, with all his household, having believed in God.Acts 16:35But when it was day, the magistrates sent the sergeants, saying, “Let those men go.”Acts 16:36The jailer reported these words to Paul, saying, “The magistrates have sent to let you go; now therefore come out, and go in peace.”Acts 16:37But Paul said to them, “They have beaten us publicly, without a trial, men who are Romans, and have cast us into prison! Do they now release us secretly? No, most certainly, but let them come themselves and bring us out!”Acts 16:38The sergeants reported these words to the magistrates, and they were afraid when they heard that they were Romans,Acts 16:39and they came and begged them. When they had brought them out, they asked them to depart from the city.Acts 16:40They went out of the prison, and entered into Lydia’s house. When they had seen the brothers, they encouraged them, and departed.Acts 21:27When the seven days were almost completed, the Jews from Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the multitude and laid hands on him,Acts 21:28crying out, “Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place. Moreover, he also brought Greeks into the temple, and has defiled this holy place!”Acts 21:29For they had seen Trophimus, the Ephesian, with him in the city, and they supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple.Acts 21:30All the city was moved, and the people ran together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple. Immediately the doors were shut.Acts 21:31As they were trying to kill him, news came up to the commanding officer of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.Acts 21:32Immediately he took soldiers and centurions, and ran down to them. They, when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, stopped beating Paul.Acts 21:33Then the commanding officer came near, arrested him, commanded him to be bound with two chains, and inquired who he was and what he had done.Acts 21:34Some shouted one thing, and some another, among the crowd. When he couldn’t find out the truth because of the noise, he commanded him to be brought into the barracks.Acts 21:35When he came to the stairs, it happened that he was carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the crowd;Acts 21:36for the multitude of the people followed after, crying out, “Away with him!”Acts 21:37As Paul was about to be brought into the barracks, he asked the commanding officer, “May I speak to you?” He said, “Do you know Greek?Acts 21:38Aren’t you then the Egyptian, who before these days stirred up to sedition and led out into the wilderness the four thousand men of the Assassins?”Acts 21:39But Paul said, “I am a Jew, from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no insignificant city. I beg you, allow me to speak to the people.”Acts 21:40When he had given him permission, Paul, standing on the stairs, beckoned with his hand to the people. When there was a great silence, he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, saying,Acts 22:24the commanding officer commanded him to be brought into the barracks, ordering him to be examined by scourging, that he might know for what crime they shouted against him like that.Acts 24:10When the governor had beckoned to him to speak, Paul answered, “Because I know that you have been a judge of this nation for many years, I cheerfully make my defense,Acts 24:23He ordered the centurion that Paul should be kept in custody, and should have some privileges, and not to forbid any of his friends to serve him or to visit him.Acts 25:8while he said in his defense, “Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar, have I sinned at all.”Acts 25:16To whom I answered that it is not the custom of the Romans to give up any man to destruction, before the accused has met the accusers face to face, and has had opportunity to make his defense concerning the matter laid against him.Acts 26:1Agrippa said to Paul, “You may speak for yourself.” Then Paul stretched out his hand, and made his defense.Acts 27:1When it was determined that we should sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the Augustan band.Acts 27:3The next day, we touched at Sidon. Julius treated Paul kindly, and gave him permission to go to his friends and refresh himself.Acts 28:16When we entered into Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard, but Paul was allowed to stay by himself with the soldier who guarded him.Acts 28:30Paul stayed two whole years in his own rented house, and received all who were coming to him,Acts 28:31preaching the Kingdom of God, and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness, without hindrance.2 Corinthians 6:5in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;2 Corinthians 11:23Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I am more so; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.