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

And this I also did in Jerusalem: and 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.

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

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

But the officers that came found them not in the prison; and they returned, and told,

saying, The prison-house we found shut in all safety, and the keepers standing at the doors: but when we had opened, we found no man within.

And there came one and told them, Behold, the men whom ye put in the prison are in the temple standing and teaching the people.

But Saul laid waste the church, entering into every house, and dragging men and women committed them to prison.

And when he had taken him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to guard him; intending after the Passover to bring him forth to the people.

Peter therefore was kept in the prison: but prayer was made earnestly of the church unto God for him.

And when Herod was about to bring him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and guards before the door kept the prison.

But he, beckoning unto them with the hand to hold their peace, declared unto them how the Lord had brought him forth out of the prison. And he said, Tell these things unto James, and to the brethren. And he departed, and went to another place.

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

who, having received such a charge, cast them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.

and suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison-house were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one's bands were loosed.

And the jailor, 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 unto them, They have beaten us publicly, uncondemned, men that are Romans, and have cast us into prison; and do they now cast us out privily? Nay verily; but let them come themselves and bring us out.

And they went out of the prison, and entered into the house of Lydia: and when they had seen the brethren, they comforted them, and departed.