Acts 16:23

Geneva Bible (1560)

And when they had beaten them sore, they cast them into prison, commaunding the Iayler to keepe them surely.

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  • 1 Sam 23:22-23 : 22 Goe, I pray you, & prepare ye yet better: know and see his place where he haunteth, and who hath seene him there: for it is sayd to me, He is subtile, and craftie. 23 See therefore & know all the secret places where he hideth himselfe, and come ye againe to me with the certaintie, and I will goe with you: and if he be in the lande, I will searche him out throughout all the thousands of Iudah.
  • Matt 26:48 : 48 Now he that betraied him, had giuen them a token, saying, Whomesoeuer I shall kisse, that is he, laie holde on him.
  • Matt 27:63-66 : 63 And said, Syr, we remember that that deceiuer saide, while he was yet aliue, Within three dayes I will rise. 64 Command therefore, that the sepulchre be made sure vntill the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steale him away, and say vnto the people, He is risen from the dead: so shall the last errour be worse then the first. 65 Then Pilate saide vnto them, Ye haue a watch: goe, and make it sure as ye knowe. 66 And they went, and made the sepulchre sure with the watch, and sealed the stone.
  • Luke 21:12 : 12 But before all these, they shal lay their hands on you, and persecute you, deliuering you vp to the assemblies, and into prisons, and bring you before Kings and rulers for my Names sake.
  • Acts 5:18 : 18 And laide hands on the Apostles, and put them in the common prison.
  • Acts 5:23 : 23 Saying, Certainely we founde the prison shut as sure as was possible, and the keepers standing without, before the doores: but when we had opened, we found no man within.
  • Acts 8:3 : 3 But Saul made hauocke of the Church, and entred into euery house, and drewe out both men and women, and put them into prison.
  • Acts 9:2 : 2 And desired of him letters to Damascus to the Synagogues, that if he found any that were of that way (either men or women) hee might bring them bound vnto Hierusalem.
  • Acts 12:4 : 4 And when he had caught him, he put him in prison, and deliuered him to foure quaternions of souldiers to be kept, intending after the Passeouer to bring him foorth to the people.
  • Acts 12:18 : 18 Nowe assoone as it was day, there was no small trouble among the souldiers, what was become of Peter.
  • Acts 16:27 : 27 Then the keeper of the prison waked out of his sleepe, and when he sawe the prison doores open, he drewe out his sword and would haue killed himselfe, supposing the prisoners had bin fled.
  • Acts 16:36 : 36 Then the keeper of the prison tolde these woordes vnto Paul, saying, The gouerness haue sent to loose you: nowe therefore get you hence, and goe in peace.
  • Eph 3:1 : 1 For this cause, I Paul am the prisoner of Iesus Christ for you Gentiles,
  • Eph 4:1 : 1 I therefore, being prisoner in the Lorde, praie you that yee walke worthie of the vocation whereunto yee are called,
  • 2 Tim 2:9 : 9 Wherein I suffer trouble as an euill doer, euen vnto bondes: but the worde of God is not bounde.
  • Phlm 1:9 : 9 Yet for loues sake I rather beseeche thee, though I be as I am, euen Paul aged, and euen nowe a prisoner for Iesus Christ.
  • Rev 1:9 : 9 I Iohn, euen your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdome and patience of Iesus Christ, was in the yle called Patmos, for the worde of God, & for the witnessing of Iesus Christ.
  • Rev 2:10 : 10 Feare none of those things, which thou shalt suffer: beholde, it shall come to passe, that the deuill shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tryed, and ye shall haue tribulation tenne dayes: be thou faithfull vnto the death, and I will giue thee the crowne of life.

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  • Acts 16:24-27
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    87%

    24 Who hauing receiued such commaundement, cast them into the inner prison, and made their feete fast in the stockes.

    25 Nowe at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sung Psalmes vnto God: and the prisoners heard them.

    26 And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundation of the prison was shaken: and by and by all the doores opened, and euery mans bands were loosed.

    27 Then the keeper of the prison waked out of his sleepe, and when he sawe the prison doores open, he drewe out his sword and would haue killed himselfe, supposing the prisoners had bin fled.

  • Acts 16:19-22
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    19 Nowe when her masters sawe that the hope of their gaine was gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drewe them into the market place vnto the Magistrates,

    20 And brought them to the gouernours, saying, These men which are Iewes, trouble our citie,

    21 And preache ordinances, which are not lawfull for vs to receiue, neither to obserue, seeing we are Romanes.

    22 The people also rose vp together against them, and the gouernours rent their clothes, and commaunded them to be beaten with roddes.

  • Acts 16:35-40
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    35 And when it was day, the gouernours sent the sergeants, saying, Let those men goe.

    36 Then the keeper of the prison tolde these woordes vnto Paul, saying, The gouerness haue sent to loose you: nowe therefore get you hence, and goe in peace.

    37 Then sayde Paul vnto them, After that they haue beaten vs openly vncodemned, which are Romanes, they haue cast vs into prison, and nowe would they put vs out priuily? nay verely: but let them come and bring vs out.

    38 And the sergeants tolde these woordes vnto the gouernours, who feared whe they heard that they were Romanes.

    39 Then came they and praied them, and brought them out, and desired them to depart out of the citie.

    40 And they went out of the prison, and entred into the house of Lydia: and when they had seene the brethren, they comforted them, and departed.

  • Acts 5:18-19
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    18 And laide hands on the Apostles, and put them in the common prison.

    19 But the Angel of the Lorde, by night opened the prison doores, & brought them forth, and sayd,

  • Acts 4:3
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    3 And they layde handes on them, and put them in holde, vntill the next day: for it was now euentide.

  • Acts 17:8-9
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    8 Then they troubled the people, and the heads of the citie, when they heard these things.

    9 Notwithstanding when they had receiued sufficient assurance of Iason and of the other, they let them goe.

  • Acts 22:23-25
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    23 And as they cried & cast off their clothes, and threw dust into the aire,

    24 The chiefe captaine commanded him to be led into the castle, and bade that he should be scourged, and examined, that he might knowe wherefore they cryed so on him.

    25 And as they bound him with thongs, Paul sayd vnto the Centurion that stood by, Is it lawfull for you to scourge one that is a Romane, and not condemned?

  • Acts 5:21-23
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    21 So when they heard it, they entred into the Temple early in the morning, & taught; the chiefe Priest came, and they that were with him, and called the Councill together, and all the Elders of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison, to cause them to be brought.

    22 But when the officers came, & found them not in the prison, they returned and tolde it,

    23 Saying, Certainely we founde the prison shut as sure as was possible, and the keepers standing without, before the doores: but when we had opened, we found no man within.

  • Acts 5:40
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    40 And to him they agreed, and called the Apostles: and when they had beaten them, they commaunded that they should not speake in the Name of Iesus, and let them goe.

  • Acts 21:32-33
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    32 Who immediately tooke souldiers & Centurions, and ran downe vnto them: and when they sawe the chiefe Captaine and the souldiers, they left beating of Paul.

    33 Then the chiefe Captaine came neere and tooke him, and commaunded him to be bound with two chaines, and demaunded who he was, and what he had done.

  • Acts 22:19
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    19 Then I sayd, Lord, they know that I prisoned, and beat in euery Synagogue them that beleeued in thee.

  • Acts 23:10
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    10 And when there was a great dissension, the chiefe captaine, fearing lest Paul should haue bene pulled in pieces of them, commaunded the souldiers to go downe, and take him from among them, and to bring him into the castel.

  • Acts 16:29-30
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    29 Then he called for a light, and leaped in, and came trembling, and fell downe before Paul and Silas,

    30 And brought them out, and said, Syrs, what must I doe to be saued?

  • Heb 11:36
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    36 And others haue bene tryed by mockings and scourgings, yea, moreouer by bondes and prisonment.

  • Acts 5:26
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    26 Then went the captaine with the officers, and brought them without violence (for they feared the people, lest they should haue bene stoned)

  • Acts 14:5-6
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    5 And when there was an assault made both of the Gentiles, and of the Iewes with their rulers, to doe them violence, and to stone them,

    6 They were ware of it, and fled vnto Lystra, and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and vnto the region round about,

  • Gen 40:3
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    3 Therefore he put them in ward in his chiefe stewardes house, in the prison and place where Ioseph was bound.

  • Acts 18:16-17
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    16 And hee draue them from the iudgement seate.

    17 Then tooke al the Grecians Sosthenes the chiefe ruler of the Synagogue, and beat him before the iudgement seat: but Gallio cared nothing for those things.

  • Acts 16:33
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    33 Afterwarde he tooke them the same houre of the night, and washed their stripes, and was baptized with all that belonged vnto him, straigthway.

  • 2 Cor 11:24
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    24 Of the Iewes fiue times receiued I fourtie stripes saue one.

  • Acts 4:21
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    21 So they threatened them, and let them goe, and found nothing how to punish them, because of the people: for all men praised God for that which was done.

  • Acts 24:7
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    7 But the chiefe captaine Lysias came vpon vs, and with great violence tooke him out of our handes,

  • Acts 26:11
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    11 And I punished them throughout all the Synagogues, and compelled them to blaspheme, and being more mad against them, I persecuted them, euen vnto strange cities.

  • Acts 12:6
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    6 And when Herod woulde haue brought him out vnto the people, the same night slept Peter betweene two souldiers, bound with two chaines, and the keepers before the doore, kept the prison.

  • John 18:12
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    12 Then the bande and the captaine, and the officers of the Iewes tooke Iesus, and bound him,

  • Luke 21:12
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    12 But before all these, they shal lay their hands on you, and persecute you, deliuering you vp to the assemblies, and into prisons, and bring you before Kings and rulers for my Names sake.

  • Jer 37:15
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    15 Wherefore the princes were angry with Ieremiah, and smote him, and layde him in prison in the house of Iehonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.

  • Acts 28:16
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    16 So when we came to Rome, the Centurion deliuered the prisoners to the generall Captaine: but Paul was suffered to dwell by him selfe with a souldier that kept him.

  • Matt 27:2
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    2 And led him away bounde, and deliuered him vnto Pontius Pilate the gouernour.

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