Acts 21:33

Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men!

Then Pashhur struck Jeremiah the prophet and put him in the stocks that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, which was in Yahweh’s house.

Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them, and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body.

Joseph’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.

I say this not to condemn you, for I have said before that you are in our hearts to die together and live together.

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the assembly,

and will hand him over to the Gentiles to mock, to scourge, and to crucify; and the third day he will be raised up.”

They watched him and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.

The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up, and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had determined to release him.

“For truly, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together against your holy servant, Jesus, whom you anointed,

For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name’s sake.”

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.

except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me.

Coming to us and taking Paul’s belt, he bound his own feet and hands, and said, “The Holy Spirit says: ‘So the Jews at Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt, and will deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.’ ”

Desiring to know the cause why they accused him, I brought him down to their council.

“I will hear you fully when your accusers also arrive.” He commanded that he be kept in Herod’s palace.

We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

Not that I speak because of lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it.

Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,

Greet Prisca and Aquila, and the house of Onesiphorus.

yet for love’s sake I rather beg, being such a one as Paul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

The young men carry millstones. The children stumbled under loads of wood.

“Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem. The Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and the scribes. They will condemn him to death, and will deliver him to the Gentiles.

Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,

To him who strikes you on the cheek, offer also the other; and from him who takes away your cloak, don’t withhold your coat also.

They therefore departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for Jesus’ name.

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

Having found disciples, we stayed there seven days. These said to Paul through the Spirit that he should not go up to Jerusalem.

Immediately 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.

But on the next day, desiring to know the truth about why he was accused by the Jews, he freed him from the bonds, and commanded the chief priests and all the council to come together, and brought Paul down and set him before them.

So he took him, and brought him to the commanding officer, and said, “Paul, the prisoner, summoned me and asked me to bring this young man to you. He has something to tell you.”

Now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers,

For this cause therefore I asked to see you and to speak with you. For because of the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.”

preaching God’s Kingdom, and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness, without hindrance.

Therefore I ask that you may not lose heart at my troubles for you, which are your glory.

Now I desire to have you know, brothers, that the things which happened to me have turned out rather to the progress of the Good News,

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,

to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn’t fade away, reserved in Heaven for you,

and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the female servant who is behind the mill, and all the firstborn of livestock.

Take the millstones and grind flour. Remove your veil, lift up your skirt, uncover your legs, and wade through the rivers.

The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, after Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains among all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah, who were carried away captive to Babylon.

Two women will be grinding at the mill: one will be taken and one will be left.

For fear of him, the guards shook, and became like dead men.

If this comes to the governor’s ears, we will persuade him and make you free of worry.”

Now there were some present at the same time who told him about the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.

For he will be delivered up to the Gentiles, will be mocked, treated shamefully, and spit on.

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.

strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.

But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, “Men and brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. Concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!”

that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

For this cause I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles,

for your partnership in furtherance of the Good News from the first day until now;

However you did well that you shared in my affliction.

that I may reveal it as I ought to speak.

The salutation of me, Paul, with my own hand: remember my bonds. Grace be with you. Amen.

that no one would be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.

I command you before God, who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate testified the good confession,

Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, to Philemon, our beloved fellow worker,

I beg you for my child, whom I have become the father of in my chains, Onesimus,

They spoke to him, saying, “No, but we will bind you securely and deliver you into their hands; but surely we will not kill you.” They bound him with two new ropes, and brought him up from the rock.

Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green cords which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.

So Delilah took new ropes and bound him with them, then said to him, “The Philistines are on you, Samson!” The ambush was waiting in the inner room. He broke them off his arms like a thread.

The Philistines laid hold on him and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza and bound him with fetters of bronze; and he ground at the mill in the prison.

and they bound him, and led him away, and delivered him up to Pontius Pilate, the governor.

I answered them that it is not the custom of the Romans to give up any man to destruction before the accused has met the accusers face to face and has had opportunity to make his defense concerning the matter laid against him.

Paul said, “I pray to God, that whether with little or with much, not only you, but also all that hear me today, might become such as I am, except for these bonds.”

It is even right for me to think this way on behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, because both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the Good News, you all are partakers with me of grace.

May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain,

in which I suffer hardship to the point of chains as a criminal. But God’s word isn’t chained.

For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.

Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment.