"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.

"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.

"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.)

They arrested them, and put them in prison till the next day, for it was already evening.

and they apprehended the apostles, and threw them into the public prison.

But an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors during the night, and let them out.

When they heard this they went at early dawn to the Temple, and began to teach. Meantime when the high priest and his followers arrived, they summoned the Sanhedrin and all the Council of the Elders of the sons of Israel, and sent to the prison to fetch the apostles.

But the officers who went did not find them in the prison; so they came back and reported,

"The prison we found locked fast, with the guards stationed at the doors, but when they were opened we found no one inside."

And some one came and told them that the very men whom they had put in prison were standing in the Temple, and teaching to the people.

But Saul was laying waste the church. He was wont to enter into every house, and to drag off men and women, and to commit them to prison.

He had him arrested and thrown in prison, and put under guard of sixteen soldiers. He intended, after the Passover, to bring him forth to the people.

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

Now when Herod was about to bring him forth, on that very night, while Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with chains, and sentries before the door were guarding the prison,

He motioned to them to keep quiet, and told them how the Lord had brought him out of prison. "Tell all this to James," he said, "and to the brothers," and away he went to another place.

had many lashes inflicted upon them, and put them in prison, with a charge to the jailer to keep them safe.

On receiving so strict an order he cast them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.

suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the very foundations of the prison-house were shaken; and instantly all the doors were opened, and every one's chains fell off.

But Paul said: "They have flogged us publicly, uncondemned, men that are Roman citizens; and have thrown us into prison. Are they now going to get rid of us secretly? No, indeed! Let them come here, themselves and take us out."

So they came and conciliated them, and after taking them out of prison, begged them to leave the town.

So Paul and Silas came out of the prison, and went to Lydia's house; and after they had seen the brethren and encouraged them, they left Philippi.

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

But after two full years Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus, and because he wished to curry favor with the Jews, Felix left Paul still in prison.

"And this also I did in Jerusalem. Armed with authority from the chief priests, I shut up many of the saints in prison, and when they were condemned to death I gave my vote against them.

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

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.

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.

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

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,