Thematic Bible: Guard prisoners

When we entered Rome [itself] Paul was permitted to live alone except for a soldier who guarded him. Verse ConceptsArrestingempiresGuardsHousesIsolated Persons

So, Peter was arrested and put in jail with four groups of four soldiers each guarding him. Herod planned to have him brought before the people after the Passover Festival was over. So, Peter was kept in jail, but the church continued to pray earnestly to God for him. [See verse 12]. Then on the night that Herod was planning to have him brought [before the court], Peter was asleep, chained between two soldiers, with guards stationed at the jail doors.