but before all these events, they will seize upon you and persecute you, drag you to the synagogues and to prisons, being accused before kings and governours, for professing my name.

for I persecuted this sect even to death, throwing them into chains and prisons both men and women:

so am I: are they ministers of Christ? is it my vanity? I am more so: in toilsome labours I surpass them, in stripes I am exceedingly beyond them, in prisons I have been oftner, and frequently in the very jaws of death.

for John was not yet cast into prison.

and they laid hands on them, and put them in prison, till the next day: for it was now evening.

went and seized on the apostles, and put them in the common prison.

but an angel of the Lord opened the prison-doors by night, and having brought them out, said to them,

when they heard that, they entred into the temple early in the morning, and taught. in the mean time, the high priest, and those of his party, being arrived at the council-chamber, summon'd all the Jewish senate to meet, and sent to the prison to bring the apostles before them.

but the officers who went there not finding them in the prison, returned, and made this report,

the prison we found shut very secure, and the keepers posted before the doors: but when we had opened it, we found no body within.

when somebody came and told them, the men whom ye order'd to prison, are standing in the temple, and teaching the people.

as for Saul, he made havock of the Church, entring into their houses, whence he dragg'd away both men and women, to throw them into prison.

having apprehended Peter, he put him into prison, appointing a detachment of sixteen soldiers to guard him, intending to have him brought to publick execution, after Easter.

thus Peter was kept in prison, but the Church prayed to God, without ceasing, for him,

now the very night preceding the day which Herod design'd for his execution, Peter bound with two chains, was sleeping between two soldiers, while the other guards secured the prison door; when an angel of

but he made a sign to them with his hand, to be silent: and related to them, how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. go, said he, and acquaint James and the other brethren with this affair. after which he departed and went to another place.

after they had been severely lash'd, they were thrown into prison, the jayler being charg'd to keep them safe.

in consequence of this order he thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.

when all of a sudden there was such a great earthquake, that the foundations of the prison were shaken: immediately all the doors opened, and the setters dropp'd from the prisoners.

the jayler waking, and seeing the prison-doors open, drew his sword, designing to dispatch himself from the apprehension that the prisoners had escaped.

then they quitted the prison, and went to Lydia's house, where finding the brethren, they gave them an exhortation, and departed.

After this, Jesus having heard that John was confined in prison, retired into Galilee.

for Herod having secur'd John, bound him, and put him in prison to please Herodias, his brother Philip's wife.

and pursuant to order, John was beheaded in the prison,

which he would not allow: but immediately threw him into prison, till he should pay the debt.

fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.

When the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,

naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye took care of me: I was in prison, and ye visited me.

or when did we see thee sick, or in prison, and visited thee?

I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.

then will they answer, Lord, when did we see thee in hunger, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?

But after John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, spreading the good news of the kingdom of the Messiah.

for Herod had given orders to seize John, and had confin'd him in prison, to gratify Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, whom he had married;

accordingly he went, and beheaded him in the prison, and bringing the head in a charger, he presented it to the young lady, who gave it to her mother:

to compleat all the rest, Herod confin'd John in prison.

Peter answer'd, Lord, I am ready to accompany you both to prison, and to death.