Acts 16:23

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

many blows also having laid upon them, they cast them to prison, having given charge to the jailor to keep them safely,

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  • 1 Sam 23:22-23 : 22 go, I pray you, prepare yet, and know and see his place where his foot is; who hath seen him there? for `one' hath said unto me, He is very subtile. 23 And see and know of all the hiding-places where he hideth himself, and ye have turned back unto me prepared, and I have gone with you, and it hath been, if he is in the land, that I have searched him out through all the thousands of Judah.'
  • Matt 26:48 : 48 And he who did deliver him up did give them a sign, saying, `Whomsoever I will kiss, it is he: lay hold on him;'
  • Matt 27:63-66 : 63 saying, `Sir, we have remembered that that deceiver said while yet living, After three days I do rise; 64 command, then, the sepulchre to be made secure till the third day, lest his disciples, having come by night, may steal him away, and may say to the people, He rose from the dead, and the last deceit shall be worse than the first.' 65 And Pilate said to them, `Ye have a watch, go away, make secure -- as ye have known;' 66 and they, having gone, did make the sepulchre secure, having sealed the stone, together with the watch.
  • Luke 21:12 : 12 and before all these, they shall lay on you their hands, and persecute, delivering up to synagogues and prisons, being brought before kings and governors for my name's sake;
  • Acts 5:18 : 18 and laid their hands upon the apostles, and did put them in a public prison;
  • Acts 5:23 : 23 saying -- `The prison indeed we found shut in all safety, and the keepers standing without before the doors, and having opened -- within we found no one.'
  • Acts 8:3 : 3 and Saul was making havoc of the assembly, into every house entering, and haling men and women, was giving them up to prison;
  • Acts 9:2 : 2 did ask from him letters to Damascus, unto the synagogues, that if he may find any being of the way, both men and women, he may bring them bound to Jerusalem.
  • Acts 12:4 : 4 whom also having seized, he did put in prison, having delivered `him' to four quaternions of soldiers to guard him, intending after the passover to bring him forth to the people.
  • Acts 12:18 : 18 And day having come, there was not a little stir among the soldiers what then was become of Peter,
  • Acts 16:27 : 27 and the jailor having come out of sleep, and having seen the doors of the prison open, having drawn a sword, was about to kill himself, supposing the prisoners to be fled,
  • Acts 16:36 : 36 and the jailor told these words unto Paul -- `The magistrates have sent, that ye may be let go; now, therefore, having gone forth go on in peace;'
  • Eph 3:1 : 1 For this cause, I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you the nations,
  • Eph 4:1 : 1 Call upon you, then, do I -- the prisoner of the Lord -- to walk worthily of the calling with which ye were called,
  • 2 Tim 2:9 : 9 in which I suffer evil -- unto bonds, as an evil-doer, but the word of God hath not been bound;
  • Phlm 1:9 : 9 because of the love I rather entreat, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ;
  • Rev 1:9 : 9 I, John, who also `am' your brother, and fellow-partner in the tribulation, and in the reign and endurance, of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, because of the word of God, and because of the testimony of Jesus Christ;
  • Rev 2:10 : 10 `Be not afraid of the things that thou art about to suffer; lo, the devil is about to cast of you to prison, that ye may be tried, and ye shall have tribulation ten days; become thou faithful unto death, and I will give to thee the crown of the life.

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    24who such a charge having received, did put them to the inner prison, and their feet made fast in the stocks.

    25And at midnight Paul and Silas praying, were singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were hearing them,

    26and suddenly a great earthquake came, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken, opened also presently were all the doors, and of all -- the bands were loosed;

    27and the jailor having come out of sleep, and having seen the doors of the prison open, having drawn a sword, was about to kill himself, supposing the prisoners to be fled,

  • Acts 16:19-22
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    19And her masters having seen that the hope of their employment was gone, having caught Paul and Silas, drew `them' to the market-place, unto the rulers,

    20and having brought them to the magistrates, they said, `These men do exceedingly trouble our city, being Jews;

    21and they proclaim customs that are not lawful for us to receive nor to do, being Romans.'

    22And the multitude rose up together against them, and the magistrates having torn their garments from them, were commanding to beat `them' with rods,

  • Acts 16:35-40
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    35And day having come, the magistrates sent the rod-bearers, saying, `Let those men go;'

    36and the jailor told these words unto Paul -- `The magistrates have sent, that ye may be let go; now, therefore, having gone forth go on in peace;'

    37and Paul said to them, `Having beaten us publicly uncondemned -- men, Romans being -- they did cast `us' to prison, and now privately do they cast us forth! why no! but having come themselves, let them bring us forth.'

    38And the rod-bearers told to the magistrates these sayings, and they were afraid, having heard that they are Romans,

    39and having come, they besought them, and having brought `them' forth, they were asking `them' to go forth from the city;

    40and they, having gone forth out of the prison, entered into `the house of' Lydia, and having seen the brethren, they comforted them, and went forth.

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    18and laid their hands upon the apostles, and did put them in a public prison;

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    3and they laid hands upon them, and did put them in custody unto the morrow, for it was evening already;

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    8And they troubled the multitude and the city rulers, hearing these things,

    9and having taking security from Jason and the rest, they let them go.

  • Acts 22:23-25
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    23And they crying out and casting up their garments, and throwing dust into the air,

    24the chief captain commanded him to be brought into the castle, saying, `By scourges let him be examined;' that he might know for what cause they were crying so against him.

    25And as he was stretching him with the thongs, Paul said unto the centurion who was standing by, `A man, a Roman, uncondemned -- is it lawful to you to scourge;'

  • Acts 5:21-23
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    21and having heard, they did enter at the dawn into the temple, and were teaching. And the chief priest having come, and those with him, they called together the sanhedrim and all the senate of the sons of Israel, and they sent to the prison to have them brought,

    22and the officers having come, did not find them in the prison, and having turned back, they told,

    23saying -- `The prison indeed we found shut in all safety, and the keepers standing without before the doors, and having opened -- within we found no one.'

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    40And to him they agreed, and having called near the apostles, having beaten `them', they commanded `them' not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go;

  • Acts 21:32-33
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    32who, at once, having taken soldiers and centurions, ran down upon them, and they having seen the chief captain and the soldiers, did leave off beating Paul.

    33Then the chief captain, having come nigh, took him, and commanded `him' to be bound with two chains, and was inquiring who he may be, and what it is he hath been doing,

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    19and I said, Lord, they -- they know that I was imprisoning and was scourging in every synagogue those believing on thee;

  • Acts 23:10
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    10and a great dissension having come, the chief captain having been afraid lest Paul may be pulled to pieces by them, commanded the soldiery, having gone down, to take him by force out of the midst of them, and to bring `him' to the castle.

  • Acts 16:29-30
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    29And, having asked for a light, he sprang in, and trembling he fell down before Paul and Silas,

    30and having brought them forth, said, `Sirs, what must I do -- that I may be saved?'

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    36and others of mockings and scourgings did receive trial, and yet of bonds and imprisonment;

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    26then the magistrate having gone away with officers, brought them without violence, for they were fearing the people, lest they should be stoned;

  • Acts 14:5-6
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    5and when there was a purpose both of the nations and of the Jews with their rulers to use `them' despitefully, and to stone them,

    6they having become aware, did flee to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra, and Derbe, and to the region round about,

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    3and giveth them in charge in the house of the chief of the executioners, unto the round-house, the place where Joseph `is' a prisoner,

  • Acts 18:16-17
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    16and he drave them from the tribunal;

    17and all the Greeks having taken Sosthenes, the chief man of the synagogue, were beating `him' before the tribunal, and not even for these things was Gallio caring.

  • Acts 16:33
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    33and having taken them, in that hour of the night, he did bathe `them' from the blows, and was baptized, himself and all his presently,

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    24from Jews five times forty `stripes' save one I did receive;

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    21And they having further threatened `them', let them go, finding nothing how they may punish them, because of the people, because all were glorifying God for that which hath been done,

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    7and Lysias the chief captain having come near, with much violence, out of our hands did take away,

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    11and in every synagogue, often punishing them, I was constraining `them' to speak evil, being also exceedingly mad against them, I was also persecuting `them' even unto strange cities.

  • Acts 12:6
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    6and when Herod was about to bring him forth, the same night was Peter sleeping between two soldiers, having been bound with two chains, guards also before the door were keeping the prison,

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    12The band, therefore, and the captain, and the officers of the Jews, took hold on Jesus, and bound him,

  • Luke 21:12
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    12and before all these, they shall lay on you their hands, and persecute, delivering up to synagogues and prisons, being brought before kings and governors for my name's sake;

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    15and the heads are wroth against Jeremiah, and have smitten him, and put him in the prison-house -- the house of Jonathan the scribe, for it they had made for a prison-house.

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    16And when we came to Rome, the centurion delivered up the prisoners to the captain of the barrack, but Paul was suffered to remain by himself, with the soldier guarding him.

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