Acts 16:23

World English Bible (2000)

When they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely,

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  • 1 Sam 23:22-23 : 22 Please go make yet more sure, and know and see his place where his haunt is, [and] who has seen him there; for it is told me that he deals very subtly. 23 See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hides himself, and come again to me with certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall happen, if he is in the land, that I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah."
  • Matt 26:48 : 48 Now he who betrayed him gave them a sign, saying, "Whoever I kiss, he is the one. Seize him."
  • Matt 27:63-66 : 63 saying, "Sir, we remember what that deceiver said while he was still alive: 'After three days I will rise again.' 64 Command therefore that the tomb be made secure until the third day, lest perhaps his disciples come at night and steal him away, and tell the people, 'He is risen from the dead;' and the last deception will be worse than the first." 65 Pilate said to them, "You have a guard. Go, make it as secure as you can." 66 So they went with the guard and made the tomb secure, sealing the stone.
  • Luke 21:12 : 12 But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and will persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors for my name's sake.
  • Acts 5:18 : 18 and laid hands on the apostles, and put them in public custody.
  • Acts 5:23 : 23 "We found the prison shut and locked, and the guards standing before the doors, but when we opened them, we found no one inside!"
  • Acts 8:3 : 3 But Saul ravaged the assembly, entering into every house, and dragged both men and women off to prison.
  • Acts 9:2 : 2 and asked for letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.
  • Acts 12:4 : 4 When he had arrested him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four squads of four soldiers each to guard him, intending to bring him out to the people after the Passover.
  • Acts 12:18 : 18 Now as soon as it was day, there was no small stir among the soldiers about what had become of Peter.
  • Acts 16:27 : 27 The jailer, being roused out of sleep and seeing the prison doors open, drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.
  • Acts 16:36 : 36 The jailer reported these words to Paul, saying, "The magistrates have sent to let you go; now therefore come out, and go in peace."
  • Eph 3:1 : 1 For this cause I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles,
  • Eph 4:1 : 1 I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,
  • 2 Tim 2:9 : 9 in which I suffer hardship to the point of chains as a criminal. But God's word isn't chained.
  • Phlm 1:9 : 9 yet for love's sake I rather beg, being such a one as Paul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.
  • Rev 1:9 : 9 I John, your brother and partner with you in oppression, Kingdom, and perseverance in Christ Jesus, was on the isle that is called Patmos because of God's Word and the testimony of Jesus Christ.
  • Rev 2:10 : 10 Don't be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

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  • Acts 16:24-27
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    24 who, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison, and secured their feet in the stocks.

    25 But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.

    26 Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone's bonds were loosened.

    27 The jailer, being roused out of sleep and seeing the prison doors open, drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.

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

    20 When they had brought them to the magistrates, they said, "These men, being Jews, are agitating our city,

    21 and set forth customs which it is not lawful for us to accept or to observe, being Romans."

    22 The multitude rose up together against them, and the magistrates tore their clothes off of them, and commanded them to be beaten with rods.

  • Acts 16:35-40
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    35 But when it was day, the magistrates sent the sergeants, saying, "Let those men go."

    36 The jailer reported these words to Paul, saying, "The magistrates have sent to let you go; now therefore come out, and go in peace."

    37 But Paul said to them, "They have beaten us publicly, without a trial, men who are Romans, and have cast us into prison! Do they now release us secretly? No, most certainly, but let them come themselves and bring us out!"

    38 The sergeants reported these words to the magistrates, and they were afraid when they heard that they were Romans,

    39 and they came and begged them. When they had brought them out, they asked them to depart from the city.

    40 They went out of the prison, and entered into Lydia's house. When they had seen the brothers, they encouraged them, and departed.

  • Acts 5:18-19
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    18 and laid hands on the apostles, and put them in public custody.

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

  • Acts 4:3
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    3 They laid hands on them, and put them in custody until the next day, for it was now evening.

  • Acts 17:8-9
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    8 The multitude and the rulers of the city were troubled when they heard these things.

    9 When they had taken security from Jason and the rest, they let them go.

  • Acts 22:23-25
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    23 As they cried out, and threw off their cloaks, and threw dust into the air,

    24 the commanding officer commanded him to be brought into the barracks, ordering him to be examined by scourging, that he might know for what crime they shouted against him like that.

    25 When they had tied him up with thongs, Paul asked the centurion who stood by, "Is it lawful for you to scourge a man who is a Roman, and not found guilty?"

  • Acts 5:21-23
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    21 When they heard this, they entered into the temple about daybreak, and taught. But the high priest came, and those who were with him, and called the council together, and all the senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.

    22 But the officers who came didn't find them in the prison. They returned and reported,

    23 "We found the prison shut and locked, and the guards standing before the doors, but when we opened them, we found no one inside!"

  • Acts 5:40
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    40 They agreed with him. Summoning the apostles, they beat them and commanded them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.

  • Acts 21:32-33
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    32 Immediately he took soldiers and centurions, and ran down to them. They, when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, stopped beating Paul.

    33 Then the commanding officer came near, arrested him, commanded him to be bound with two chains, and inquired who he was and what he had done.

  • Acts 22:19
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    19 I said, 'Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue those who believed in you.

  • Acts 23:10
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    10 When a great argument arose, the commanding officer, fearing that Paul would be torn in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and take him by force from among them, and bring him into the barracks.

  • Acts 16:29-30
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    29 He called for lights and sprang in, and, fell down trembling before Paul and Silas,

    30 and brought them out and said, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?"

  • Heb 11:36
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    36 Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment.

  • Acts 5:26
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    26 Then the captain went with the officers, and brought them without violence, for they were afraid that the people might stone them.

  • Acts 14:5-6
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    5 When some of both the Gentiles and the Jews, with their rulers, made a violent attempt to mistreat and stone them,

    6 they became aware of it, and fled to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra, Derbe, and the surrounding region.

  • Gen 40:3
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    3 He put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.

  • Acts 18:16-17
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    16 He drove them from the judgment seat.

    17 Then all the Greeks laid hold on Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. Gallio didn't care about any of these things.

  • Acts 16:33
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    33 He took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes, and was immediately baptized, he and all his household.

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

  • Acts 4:21
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    21 When they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding no way to punish them, because of the people; for everyone glorified God for that which was done.

  • Acts 24:7
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  • Acts 26:11
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    11 Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.

  • Acts 12:6
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    6 The same night when Herod was about to bring him out, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains. Guards in front of the door kept the prison.

  • John 18:12
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    12 So the detachment, the commanding officer, and the officers of the Jews, seized Jesus and bound him,

  • Luke 21:12
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    12 But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and will persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors for my name's sake.

  • Jer 37:15
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    15 The princes were angry with Jeremiah, and struck him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe; for they had made that the prison.

  • Acts 28:16
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    16 When we entered into Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard, but Paul was allowed to stay by himself with the soldier who guarded him.

  • Matt 27:2
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    2 and they bound him, and led him away, and delivered him up to Pontius Pilate, the governor.