They arrested them, and put them in prison till the next day, for it was already evening.

and they apprehended the apostles, and threw them into the public prison.

But an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors during the night, and let them out.

When they heard this they went at early dawn to the Temple, and began to teach. Meantime when the high priest and his followers arrived, they summoned the Sanhedrin and all the Council of the Elders of the sons of Israel, and sent to the prison to fetch the apostles.

But the officers who went did not find them in the prison; so they came back and reported,

"The prison we found locked fast, with the guards stationed at the doors, but when they were opened we found no one inside."

And some one came and told them that the very men whom they had put in prison were standing in the Temple, and teaching to the people.

But Saul was laying waste the church. He was wont to enter into every house, and to drag off men and women, and to commit them to prison.

He had him arrested and thrown in prison, and put under guard of sixteen soldiers. He intended, after the Passover, to bring him forth to the people.

So Peter was kept in prison, but earnest prayer to God was made by the church for him.

Now when Herod was about to bring him forth, on that very night, while Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with chains, and sentries before the door were guarding the prison,

He motioned to them to keep quiet, and told them how the Lord had brought him out of prison. "Tell all this to James," he said, "and to the brothers," and away he went to another place.

had many lashes inflicted upon them, and put them in prison, with a charge to the jailer to keep them safe.

On receiving so strict an order he cast them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.

suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the very foundations of the prison-house were shaken; and instantly all the doors were opened, and every one's chains fell off.

But Paul said: "They have flogged us publicly, uncondemned, men that are Roman citizens; and have thrown us into prison. Are they now going to get rid of us secretly? No, indeed! Let them come here, themselves and take us out."

So they came and conciliated them, and after taking them out of prison, begged them to leave the town.

So Paul and Silas came out of the prison, and went to Lydia's house; and after they had seen the brethren and encouraged them, they left Philippi.

"I persecuted to the death this way, continually binding and delivering up to prisons both men and women.

But after two full years Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus, and because he wished to curry favor with the Jews, Felix left Paul still in prison.

"And this also I did in Jerusalem. Armed with authority from the chief priests, I shut up many of the saints in prison, and when they were condemned to death I gave my vote against them.