Acts 16:27

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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  • Acts 12:19 : 19 When Herod had sought for him, and didn't find him, he examined the guards, and commanded that they should be put to death. He went down from Judea to Caesarea, and stayed there.
  • Acts 16:23-24 : 23 When they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely, 24 who, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison, and secured their feet in the stocks.
  • Judg 9:54 : 54 Then he called hastily to the young man his armor bearer, and said to him, "Draw your sword, and kill me, that men not say of me, 'A woman killed him.' His young man thrust him through, and he died."
  • 1 Sam 31:4-5 : 4 Then Saul said to his armor bearer, "Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me!" But his armor bearer would not; for he was terrified. Therefore Saul took his sword, and fell on it. 5 When his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell on his sword, and died with him.
  • 2 Sam 17:23 : 23 When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, and arose, and went home, to his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the tomb of his father.
  • 1 Kgs 16:18 : 18 It happened, when Zimri saw that the city was taken, that he went into the castle of the king's house, and burnt the king's house over him with fire, and died,
  • Matt 27:5 : 5 He threw down the pieces of silver in the sanctuary, and departed. He went away and hanged himself.

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  • Acts 16:23-26
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    23When they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely,

    24who, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison, and secured their feet in the stocks.

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

    26Suddenly 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.

  • Acts 16:28-30
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    28But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, "Don't harm yourself, for we are all here!"

    29He called for lights and sprang in, and, fell down trembling before Paul and Silas,

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

  • Acts 5:22-23
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    22But 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 16:35-40
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    35But when it was day, the magistrates sent the sergeants, saying, "Let those men go."

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

    37But 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!"

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

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

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

  • Acts 12:5-7
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    5Peter therefore was kept in the prison, but constant prayer was made by the assembly to God for him.

    6The 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.

    7And behold, an angel of the Lord stood by him, and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side, and woke him up, saying, "Stand up quickly!" His chains fell off from his hands.

  • Acts 5:19
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    19But an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors by night, and brought them out, and said,

  • Acts 27:42-43
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    42The soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would swim out and escape.

    43But the centurion, desiring to save Paul, stopped them from their purpose, and commanded that those who could swim should throw themselves overboard first to go toward the land;

  • Acts 28:16
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    16When 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.

  • Acts 21:30-33
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    30All the city was moved, and the people ran together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple. Immediately the doors were shut.

    31As they were trying to kill him, news came up to the commanding officer of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.

    32Immediately he took soldiers and centurions, and ran down to them. They, when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, stopped beating Paul.

    33Then 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 12:16-18
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    16But Peter continued knocking. When they had opened, they saw him, and were amazed.

    17But he, beckoning to them with his hand to be silent, declared to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. He said, "Tell these things to James, and to the brothers." Then he departed, and went to another place.

    18Now as soon as it was day, there was no small stir among the soldiers about what had become of Peter.

  • Acts 12:10-11
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    10When they were past the first and the second guard, they came to the iron gate that leads into the city, which opened to them by itself. They went out, and went down one street, and immediately the angel departed from him.

    11When Peter had come to himself, he said, "Now I truly know that the Lord has sent out his angel and delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from everything the Jewish people were expecting."

  • Acts 16:19
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    19But 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.

  • Acts 27:30
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    30As the sailors were trying to flee out of the ship, and had lowered the boat into the sea, pretending that they would lay out anchors from the bow,

  • Matt 28:4
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    4For fear of him, the guards shook, and became like dead men.

  • Acts 23:10-11
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    10When 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.

    11The following night, the Lord stood by him, and said, "Cheer up, Paul, for as you have testified about me at Jerusalem, so you must testify also at Rome."

  • Gen 39:22-23
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    22The keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners who were in the prison. Whatever they did there, he was responsible for it.

    23The keeper of the prison didn't look after anything that was under his hand, because Yahweh was with him; and that which he did, Yahweh made it prosper.

  • Acts 17:9
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    9When they had taken security from Jason and the rest, they let them go.

  • Acts 26:30-31
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    30The king rose up with the governor, and Bernice, and those who sat with them.

    31When they had withdrawn, they spoke one to another, saying, "This man does nothing worthy of death or of bonds."

  • Acts 22:29
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    29Immediately those who were about to examine him departed from him, and the commanding officer also was afraid when he realized that he was a Roman, because he had bound him.

  • Acts 27:32
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    32Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the boat, and let it fall off.

  • Acts 28:18
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    18who, when they had examined me, desired to set me free, because there was no cause of death in me.

  • Acts 9:24
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    24but their plot became known to Saul. They watched the gates both day and night that they might kill him,

  • Judg 16:20
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    20She said, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" He awoke out of his sleep, and said, "I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free." But he didn't know that Yahweh had departed from him.

  • Acts 18:9
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    9The Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision, "Don't be afraid, but speak and don't be silent;

  • Acts 22:26
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    26When the centurion heard it, he went to the commanding officer and told him, "Watch what you are about to do, for this man is a Roman!"

  • Gen 39:20
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    20Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where the king's prisoners were bound, and he was there in custody.

  • Acts 26:21
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    21For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple, and tried to kill me.