Acts 16:23

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Summary

Acts 16:23

And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely:

They cast

To keep

General references

Acts 5:18

Bible References

They cast

and laid hands upon the Apostles, and put them into the public jail.

But Saul cruelly harassed the Church. He went into house after house, and, dragging off both men and women, threw them into prison.

went to the High Priest and begged from him letters addressed to the synagogues in Damascus, in order that if he found any believers there, either men or women, he might bring them in chains to Jerusalem.

He had him arrested and lodged in jail, handing him over to the care of sixteen soldiers; and intended after the Passover to bring him out again to the people.

"But before all these things happen they will lay hands on you and persecute you. They will deliver you up to synagogues and to prison, and you will be brought before kings and governors for my sake.

For this reason I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles--

I, then, the prisoner for the Master's sake, entreat you to live and act as becomes those who have received the call that you have received--

For preaching the Good News I suffer, and am even put in chains, as if I were a criminal: yet the word of God is not imprisoned.

it is for love's sake that--instead of that--although I am none other than Paul the aged, and am now also a prisoner for Christ Jesus,

I John, your brother, and a sharer with you in the sorrows and Kingship and patient endurance of Jesus, found myself in the island of Patmos, on account of the Word of God and the truth told us by Jesus.

Dismiss your fears concerning all that you are about to suffer. I tell you that the Devil is about to throw some of you into prison that you may be put to the test, and for ten days you will have to endure persecution. Be faithful to the End, even if you have to die, and then I will give you the victor's Wreath of Life.

To keep

saying, "The jail we found quite safely locked, and the warders were on guard at the doors, but upon going in we found no one there."

When morning came, there was no little commotion among the soldiers, as to what could possibly have become of Peter.

Now the betrayer had agreed upon a sign with them, to direct them. He had said, "The one whom I kiss is the man: lay hold of him."

"Sir," they said, "we recollect that during his lifetime that impostor pretended that after two days he was to rise to life again.

General references

and laid hands upon the Apostles, and put them into the public jail.