3 Bible Verses about Prisons

And when they had passed the first guard and the second, they came to the iron gate that led to the city. This opened to them of its own accord; and they went out passed on through one street; and suddenly the angel left him.

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.

When we finally entered Rome, Paul was allowed to live by himself with the soldier to guard him.

The Lord show mercy to the house hold of Onesiphorus; for many a time he refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain. But when he came to Rome he sought for me until he found me. The Lord grant him to find mercy form the Lord in that Day! And you know better than I how many services he rendered in Ephesus.

After this Paul lived for two whole years in his own rented house, and used to receive all who came to see him.

And he gave orders to the centurion that Paul should be kept in custody, but treated with indulgence, and that his personal friends were not to be forbidden to minister to him.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

He sent and beheaded John in 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.

And he took them, the same hour of the night, and washed their wounds, and he was baptized at once, he and all his. And after bringing them up into his house, he set food before them, overjoyed with all his household in having believed in God.

"I tell you truly that you would certainly not get out from there until you had paid back the last cent.

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

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

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

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

The jailer, roused from sleep, and seeing the doors wide open, drew his sword and was about to kill himself, because he thought that the prisoners had escaped.

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

But in the morning the praetors sent their lictors with the order, "Let these men go." The jailer reported the words to Paul, saying. "The praetors have sent to release you; so come out, and go in peace."

"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.

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

Then Herod had search made for him, and could not find him. After sharply questioning the guards, he ordered them off to execution. He then went down from Judea to Caesarea, where he stayed for some time.

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.

And when they had passed the first guard and the second, they came to the iron gate that led to the city. This opened to them of its own accord; and they went out passed on through one street; and suddenly the angel left him.

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

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,

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

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,

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

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