Acts 12:4

Bishops' Bible (1568)

And when he had caught hym, he put hym in pryson also, and delyuered hym to foure quaternions of souldiers to be kept, intendyng after Easter to bryng hym foorth to the people.

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  • Luke 21:12 : 12 But before all these, they shall laye their handes on you, and persecute you, deliueryng you vp to the synagogues, & into prisons, and shall bryng you vnto kynges and rulers for my names sake.
  • Prov 19:21 : 21 There are many deuises in a mans heart: neuerthelesse, the counsayle of the Lorde shall stande.
  • Prov 27:1 : 1 Make not thy boast of to morowe: for thou knowest not what a day may bring foorth.
  • Lam 3:37 : 37 What is he then that saith, there should some thing be done without the Lordes commaundement?
  • Matt 24:9 : 9 Then shall they put you to trouble, and shall kyll you, and ye shalbe hated of all nations for my names sake.
  • Matt 26:5 : 5 But they sayde: Not on the feast day lest there be an vprore among ye people.
  • Matt 27:64-66 : 64 Commaunde therfore, that the sepulchre be made sure, vntyll the thirde day: lest his disciples come by nyght & steale hym away, and say vnto the people, he is rysen from the dead: & the last error shalbe worse then the first. 65 Pilate sayde vnto them: Ye haue the watche, go your way, make it as sure as ye knowe. 66 So they went, and made the sepulchre sure with the watch, and sealed the stone.
  • Esth 3:6-7 : 6 And thought it to litle to lay handes onely on Mardocheus, for they had shewed him the nation of Mardocheus: wherefore he sought to destroy all the Iewes that were throughout the whole empire of Ahasuerus, and that were of the nation of Mardocheus. 7 In the first moneth (that is, the moneth Nisan) in the twelfth yere of king Ahasuerus, they cast Phur, that is a lot, before Haman from day to day, and from moneth to moneth to the twelfth moneth, that is, the moneth Adar.
  • Esth 3:13 : 13 And the letters were sent by postes into all the kinges prouinces, to roote out, to kill, and to destroy all Iewes both young and olde, children and women in one day namely vpon the thirteenth day of the twelfth moneth (which is the moneth Adar) & to spoyle the as a pray.par
  • Acts 16:23-24 : 23 And when they had beaten them sore, they cast them into pryson, commaundyng the iayler of the pryson to kepe them diligently. 24 Which when he had receaued such commaundement, thrust them into the inner pryson, and made their feete fast in the stockes.
  • Luke 22:33 : 33 And he sayde vnto him: Lord I am redy to go with thee into pryson, and to death.
  • John 13:36-38 : 36 Simon Peter saide vnto him: Lorde, whither goest thou? Iesus aunswered hym: Whither I go, thou canst not folowe me nowe, but thou shalt folowe me afterwardes. 37 Peter sayde vnto hym: Lorde, why can not I folowe thee nowe? I wyll ieoparde my lyfe for thy sake. 38 Iesus aunswered hym: Wylt thou ieoparde thy lyfe for my sake? Uerly, veryly, I saye vnto thee, the Cocke shall not crowe, tyll thou haue denyed me thryse.
  • John 19:23 : 23 Then the souldiers, when they had crucified Iesus, toke his garmentes, (& made foure partes, to euery souldier a part) and also his coate. The coate was without seame, wouen from the toppe throughout.
  • John 21:18 : 18 Ueryly veryly I say vnto thee, when thou wast young, thou gyrdedst thy selfe, and walkedst whither thou wouldest: but when thou shalt be olde, thou shalt stretch foorth thy handes, and another shall gyrde thee, and leade thee whither thou wouldest not.
  • Acts 4:3 : 3 And they layde handes on them, and put them in holde, vntyll the next day: for it was nowe euentyde.
  • Acts 4:28 : 28 For to do whatsoeuer thy hande & thy counsel determined before to be done.
  • Acts 5:18 : 18 And layed handes on the Apostles, and put them in the common prison.
  • Acts 8:3 : 3 As for Saul, he made hauocke of the Churche, and entred into euery house, & drewe out both men and women, and put them into pryson.

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