Acts 16:23

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After they had beaten them severely, they threw them into prison and commanded the jailer to guard them securely.

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  • 1 Sam 23:22-23 : 22 Go and make further arrangements. Determine precisely where he is and who has seen him there, for I am told that he is extremely cunning. 23 Locate precisely all the places where he hides and return to me with dependable information. Then I will go with you. If he is in the land, I will find him among all the thousands of Judah.”
  • Matt 26:48 : 48 (Now the betrayer had given them a sign, saying,“The one I kiss is the man. Arrest him!”)
  • Matt 27:63-66 : 63 and said,“Sir, we remember that while that deceiver was still alive he said,‘After three days I will rise again.’ 64 So give orders to secure the tomb until the third day. Otherwise his disciples may come and steal his body and say to the people,‘He has been raised from the dead,’ and the last deception will be worse than the first.” 65 Pilate said to them,“Take a guard of soldiers. Go and make it as secure as you can.” 66 So they went with the soldiers of the guard and made the tomb secure by sealing the stone.
  • Luke 21:12 : 12 But before all this, they will seize you and persecute you, handing you over to the synagogues and prisons. You will be brought before kings and governors because of my name.
  • Acts 5:18 : 18 They laid hands on the apostles and put them in a public jail.
  • Acts 5:23 : 23 “We found the jail locked securely and the guards standing at the doors, but when we opened them, we found no one inside.”
  • Acts 8:3 : 3 But Saul was trying to destroy the church; entering one house after another, he dragged off both men and women and put them in prison.
  • Acts 9:2 : 2 and requested letters from him to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any who belonged to the Way, either men or women, he could bring them as prisoners to Jerusalem.
  • Acts 12:4 : 4 When he had seized him, he put him in prison, handing him over to four squads of soldiers to guard him. Herod planned to bring him out for public trial after the Passover.
  • Acts 12:18 : 18 At daybreak there was great consternation among the soldiers over what had become of Peter.
  • Acts 16:27 : 27 When the jailer woke up and saw the doors of the prison standing open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, because he assumed the prisoners had escaped.
  • Acts 16:36 : 36 The jailer reported these words to Paul, saying,“The magistrates have sent orders to release you. So come out now and go in peace.”
  • Eph 3:1 : 1 Paul’s Relationship to the Divine Mystery For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles
  • Eph 4:1 : 1 Live in Unity I, therefore, the prisoner for the Lord, urge you to live worthily of the calling with which you have been called,
  • 2 Tim 2:9 : 9 for which I suffer hardship to the point of imprisonment as a criminal, but God’s message is not imprisoned!
  • Phlm 1:9 : 9 I would rather appeal to you on the basis of love– I, Paul, an old man and even now a prisoner for the sake of Christ Jesus–
  • Rev 1:9 : 9 I, John, your brother and the one who shares with you in the persecution, kingdom, and endurance that are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony about Jesus.
  • Rev 2:10 : 10 Do not be afraid of the things you are about to suffer. The devil is about to have some of you thrown into prison so you may be tested, and you will experience suffering for ten days. Remain faithful even to the point of death, and I will give you the crown that is life itself.

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  • Acts 16:24-27
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    24Receiving such orders, he threw them in the inner cell and fastened their feet in the stocks.

    25About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the rest of the prisoners were listening to them.

    26Suddenly a great earthquake occurred, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken. Immediately all the doors flew open, and the bonds of all the prisoners came loose.

    27When the jailer woke up and saw the doors of the prison standing open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, because he assumed the prisoners had escaped.

  • Acts 16:19-22
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    19But when her owners saw their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace before the authorities.

    20When they had brought them before the magistrates, they said,“These men are throwing our city into confusion. They are Jews

    21and are advocating customs that are not lawful for us to accept or practice, since we are Romans.”

    22The crowd joined the attack against them, and the magistrates tore the clothes off Paul and Silas and ordered them to be beaten with rods.

  • Acts 16:35-40
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    35At daybreak the magistrates sent their police officers, saying,“Release those men.”

    36The jailer reported these words to Paul, saying,“The magistrates have sent orders to release you. So come out now and go in peace.”

    37But Paul said to the police officers,“They had us beaten in public without a proper trial– even though we are Roman citizens– and they threw us in prison. And now they want to send us away secretly? Absolutely not! They themselves must come and escort us out!”

    38The police officers reported these words to the magistrates. They were frightened when they heard Paul and Silas were Roman citizens

    39and came and apologized to them. After they brought them out, they asked them repeatedly to leave the city.

    40When they came out of the prison, they entered Lydia’s house, and when they saw the brothers, they encouraged them and then departed.

  • Acts 5:18-19
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    18They laid hands on the apostles and put them in a public jail.

    19But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the doors of the prison, led them out, and said,

  • Acts 4:3
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    3So they seized them and put them in jail until the next day(for it was already evening).

  • Acts 17:8-9
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    8They caused confusion among the crowd and the city officials who heard these things.

    9After the city officials had received bail from Jason and the others, they released them.

  • Acts 22:23-25
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    23While they were screaming and throwing off their cloaks and tossing dust in the air,

    24the commanding officer ordered Paul to be brought back into the barracks. He told them to interrogate Paul by beating him with a lash so that he could find out the reason the crowd was shouting at Paul in this way.

    25When they had stretched him out for the lash, Paul said to the centurion standing nearby,“Is it legal for you to lash a man who is a Roman citizen without a proper trial?”

  • Acts 5:21-23
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    21When they heard this, they entered the temple courts at daybreak and began teaching. Now when the high priest and those who were with him arrived, they summoned the Sanhedrin– that is, the whole high council of the Israelites– and sent to the jail to have the apostles brought before them.

    22But the officers who came for them did not find them in the prison, so they returned and reported,

    23“We found the jail locked securely and the guards standing at the doors, but when we opened them, we found no one inside.”

  • Acts 5:40
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    40and they summoned the apostles and had them beaten. Then they ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus and released them.

  • Acts 21:32-33
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    32He immediately took soldiers and centurions and ran down to the crowd. When they saw the commanding officer and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.

    33Then the commanding officer came up and arrested him and ordered him to be tied up with two chains; he then asked who he was and what he had done.

  • Acts 22:19
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    19I replied,‘Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat those in the various synagogues who believed in you.

  • Acts 23:10
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    10When the argument became so great the commanding officer feared that they would tear Paul to pieces, he ordered the detachment to go down, take him away from them by force, and bring him into the barracks.

  • Acts 16:29-30
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    29Calling for lights, the jailer rushed in and fell down trembling at the feet of Paul and Silas.

    30Then he brought them outside and asked,“Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”

  • Heb 11:36
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    36And others experienced mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.

  • Acts 5:26
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    26Then the commander of the temple guard went with the officers and brought the apostles without the use of force(for they were afraid of being stoned by the people).

  • Acts 14:5-6
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    5When both the Gentiles and the Jews(together with their rulers) made an attempt to mistreat them and stone them,

    6Paul and Barnabas learned about it and fled to the Lycaonian cities of Lystra and Derbe and the surrounding region.

  • Gen 40:3
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    3so he imprisoned them in the house of the captain of the guard in the same facility where Joseph was confined.

  • Acts 18:16-17
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    16Then he had them forced away from the judgment seat.

    17So they all seized Sosthenes, the president of the synagogue, and began to beat him in front of the judgment seat. Yet none of these things were of any concern to Gallio.

  • Acts 16:33
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    33At that hour of the night he took them and washed their wounds; then he and all his family were baptized right away.

  • 2 Cor 11:24
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    24Five times I received from the Jews forty lashes less one.

  • Acts 4:21
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    21After threatening them further, they released them, for they could not find how to punish them on account of the people, because they were all praising God for what had happened.

  • Acts 26:11
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    11I punished them often in all the synagogues and tried to force them to blaspheme. Because I was so furiously enraged at them, I went to persecute them even in foreign cities.

  • Acts 12:6
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    6On that very night before Herod was going to bring him out for trial, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, while guards in front of the door were keeping watch over the prison.

  • John 18:12
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    12Jesus Before Annas Then the squad of soldiers with their commanding officer and the officers of the Jewish leaders arrested Jesus and tied him up.

  • Luke 21:12
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    12But before all this, they will seize you and persecute you, handing you over to the synagogues and prisons. You will be brought before kings and governors because of my name.

  • Jer 37:15
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    15The officials were very angry at Jeremiah. They had him flogged and put in prison in the house of Jonathan, the royal secretary, which they had converted into a place for confining prisoners.

  • Acts 28:16
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    16When we entered Rome, Paul was allowed to live by himself, with the soldier who was guarding him.

  • Matt 27:2
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    2They tied him up, led him away, and handed him over to Pilate the governor.