"But before all these things happen, they will apprehend you and persecute you and deliver you to the synagogues and to prisons, and bring you before kings and governors for the sake of my name.

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

but the Scripture has shut up the whole world in prison together under sin, in order that the promise due to faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who have faith.

(It was in spirit that he went and preached the Word to the spirits who were in prison,

Remember those who are in prison, as if you were fellow prisoners; remember too, those who are being ill-treated, since you too, are in the body.

Fear not what you are about to suffer! Behold, the devil is indeed going to put some of you in prison, that you may be tested, and you will have persecution for ten days. Be faithful even unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.

And when the thousand years have been completed, Satan will be loosed out of his prison,

For God has locked up all in the prison of disobedience, that upon all he may have mercy.

"Come to terms with your opponent quickly, while you are yet with him on the way [to the court], to prevent your opponent from handing you over to the judge, and the judge to the jailer, and so you be thrown into prison.

But when John heard, in the prison, what the Christ was doing, he sent by some of his disciples to ask him,

For Herod had apprehended John, shackled him, and thrust him into prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife,

He sent and beheaded John in prison;

"But he would not; on the contrary he went and threw him into prison until he should pay the debt.

"'I was naked, and you clothed me; I was sick, and you visited me; I was in prison, and you came to see me.'

"'When did we see you sick or in prison, and come to see you?'

"I was a stranger, and you took me not in; naked, and you clothed me not; sick, or in prison, and you visited me not.'

"Then will they also answer, 'Master, when did we ever see you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister to you?'

After John had been thrown into prison Jesus came into Galilee preaching the gospel of God.

Now this Herod had sent and arrested John, and bound him in prison, for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, whom he had married.

And he went and beheaded John in prison, brought his head on a platter, and gave it to the young girl, and she gave it to her mother.

A man named Barabbas was there in prison, with some rioters who had committed murder during an uprising.

added yet this above them all that he shut up John in prison.

"For as you go before the magistrate with your opponent do your utmost to get quit of him, lest he drag you before the judge, and the judge delivers you over to the officer, and the officer cast you into prison.

"Lord," Simon said to him, "I am ready to go with you, both to prison and to death."

(This was a man who had been thrown in prison on account of a riot which had occurred in the city, and for murder.)

He released the man who had been put in prison for riot and murder, the man whom they asked for; but Jesus he handed over to their will.

(For John had not yet been thrown into prison.)