Acts 4:3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Acts 4:3

And they laid hands on them, and put them in hold unto the next day: for it was now eventide.

Laid

General references

Jeremiah 26:7

Acts 5:18

Bible References

Laid

They arrested the apostles and put them in a public jail.

And they provoked and incited the people, as well as the elders and the scribes, and they came up to Stephen and seized him and brought him before the Council (Sanhedrin, Jewish High Court).

But Saul began ravaging the church [and assaulting believers]; entering house after house and dragging off men and women, putting them in prison.

and he asked for letters [of authority] from him to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any men or women there belonging to the Way [believers, followers of Jesus the Messiah], men and women alike, he could arrest them and bring them bound [with chains] to Jerusalem.

Now at that time Herod [Agrippa I] the king [of the Jews] arrested some who belonged to the church, intending to harm them.

But when her owners saw that their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them before the authorities in the market place [where trials were held],

“Listen carefully: I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; so be wise as serpents, and innocent as doves [have no self-serving agenda].

Then Jesus said to the chief priests and officers of the temple and elders [of the Sanhedrin] who had come out against Him, “Have you come out with swords and clubs as you would against a robber?

So the cohort and their commander and the officers of the Jews arrested Jesus and bound Him,

General references

The priests and the [false] prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the Lord.

They arrested the apostles and put them in a public jail.