I was a stranger and you did not receive me as a guest, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.’

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now<n id="1" /> there were shepherds<n id="2" /> nearby<n id="3" /> living out in the field, keeping guard<n id="4" /> over their flock at night.

He released the man they asked for, who had been thrown in prison for insurrection and murder. But he handed Jesus over<n id="1" /> to their will.<n id="2" />p>

But Saul was trying to destroy<n id="1" /> the church; entering one house after another, he dragged off<n id="2" /> both men and women and put them in prison.<n id="3" />p>

When he had seized him, he put him in prison, handing him over to four squads<n id="1" /> of soldiers to guard him. Herod<n id="2" /> planned<n id="3" /> to bring him out for public trial<n id="4" /> after the Passover.

So Peter was kept in prison, but those in the church were earnestly<n id="1" /> praying to God for him.<n id="2" />

Receiving such orders, he threw them in the inner cell<n id="1" /> and fastened their feet in the stocks.<n id="2" />p>

When they came out of the prison, they entered Lydia&#8217;s house, and when they saw the brothers, they encouraged them and then<n id="1" /> departed.p>

Are they servants of Christ? (I am talking like I am out of my mind!) I am even more so: with much greater labors, with far more imprisonments, with more severe beatings, facing death many times.

Reach agreement<n id="1" /> quickly with your accuser while on the way to court,<n id="2" /> or he<n id="3" /> may hand you over to the judge, and the judge hand you over to the warden, and you will be thrown into prison.

But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief<n id="1" /> was coming, he would have been alert and would not have let his house be broken into.

Then they too will answer,<n id="1" /> &#8216;Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not give you whatever you needed?&#8217;

For Herod himself had sent men, arrested John, and bound him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip&#8217;s wife, because Herod<n id="1" /> had married her.

He brought his head on a platter and gave it to the girl, and the girl gave it to her mother.

He<n id="1" /> saw them straining at the oars, because the wind was against them. As the night was ending,<n id="2" /> he came to them walking on the sea,<n id="3" /> for<n id="4" /> he wanted to pass by them.<n id="5" />

But before all this,<n id="1" /> they will seize<n id="2" /> you and persecute you, handing you over to the synagogues<n id="3" /> and prisons. You<n id="4" /> will be brought before kings and governors because of my name.

But someone came and reported to them, &#8220;Look! The men you put in prison are standing in the temple courts<n id="1" /> and teaching<n id="2" /> the people!&#8221;

On that very night before Herod was going to bring him out for trial,<n id="1" /> Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, while<n id="2" /> guards in front of the door were keeping watch<n id="3" /> over the prison.

He motioned to them<n id="1" /> with his hand to be quiet and then related<n id="2" /> how the Lord had brought<n id="3" /> him out of the prison. He said, &#8220;Tell James and the brothers these things,&#8221; and then he left and went to another place.<n id="4" />p>

When the jailer woke up<n id="1" /> and saw the doors of the prison standing open,<n id="2" /> he drew his sword and was about to kill himself,<n id="3" /> because he assumed<n id="4" /> the prisoners had escaped.