'Prisoners' in the Bible

But after ordering them to step out of the Council [chamber], they began to confer among themselves,

Then the captain went with the officers and brought them back, without hurting them (because they were afraid of the people, worried that they might be stoned).

But about midnight when Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns of praise to God, and the prisoners were listening to them;

When the jailer, shaken out of sleep, saw the prison doors open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, thinking that the prisoners had escaped.

The officers reported this message to the chief magistrates, and when they heard that the prisoners were Romans, they were frightened;

Now when it was determined that we (including Luke) would sail for Italy, they turned Paul and some other prisoners over to a centurion of the Augustan Regiment named Julius.

The soldiers’ plan was to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would dive overboard and swim [to land] and escape;

When we entered Rome, Paul was allowed to stay by himself [in rented quarters] with the soldier who was guarding him.