But an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors by night, and brought them out, and said,

When they heard this, they entered into the temple about daybreak, and taught. But the high priest came, and those who were with him, and called the council together, and all the senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.

But the officers who came did not find them in the prison. They returned and reported,

"We found the prison shut and locked, and the guards standing before the doors, but when we opened them, we found no one inside."

One came and told them, "Behold, the men whom you put in prison are in the temple, standing and teaching the people."

But Saul ravaged the church, entering into every house, and dragged both men and women off to prison.

When he had arrested him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four squads of four soldiers each to guard him, intending to bring him out to the people after the Passover.

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

The same night when Herod was about to bring him out, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains. Guards in front of the door kept the prison.

But 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.

When they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely,

who, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison, and secured their feet in the stocks.

Suddenly 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.

The 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.

But 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 indeed. Let them come themselves and bring us out."

They went out of the prison, and entered into Lydia's house. When they had seen the brothers, they encouraged them, and departed.

I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.

This I also did in Jerusalem. I both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests, and when they were put to death I gave my vote against them.