Acts 28:30

But Festus, desiring to gain favor with the Jews, answered Paul and said, “Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem, and be judged by me there concerning these things?”

So Jeremiah stayed in the court of the guard until the day that Jerusalem was taken.

As he stayed there many days, Festus laid Paul’s case before the king, saying, “There is a certain man left a prisoner by Felix;

Now at that time the king of Babylon’s army was besieging Jerusalem. Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the guard, which was in the king of Judah’s house.

“My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon. He is likely to die in the place where he is, because of the famine; for there is no more bread in the city.”

In the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

When he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to seize Peter also. This was during the days of unleavened bread.

Festus therefore, having come into the province, after three days went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

Do you look at things only as they appear in front of your face? If anyone trusts in himself that he is Christ’s, let him consider this again with himself, that even as he is Christ’s, so we also are Christ’s.

On the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

Palal the son of Uzai made repairs opposite the turning of the wall, and the tower that stands out from the upper house of the king, which is by the court of the guard. After him Pedaiah the son of Parosh made repairs.

he will dwell on high. His place of defense will be the fortress of rocks. His bread will be supplied. His waters will be sure.

Moreover Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah the second time, while he was still locked up in the court of the guard, saying,

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

who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

In famine he will redeem you from death; in war, from the power of the sword.

Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, “I am restricted. I can’t go into Yahweh’s house.

So they drew up Jeremiah with the cords, and took him up out of the dungeon; and Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.

Pilate, wishing to please the multitude, released Barabbas to them, and handed over Jesus, when he had flogged him, to be crucified.

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

But the unpersuaded Jews took along some wicked men from the marketplace, and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people.

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

Agrippa said to Festus, “This man might have been set free if he had not appealed to Caesar.”

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.

Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed, and each as the Lord gave to him?

as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, and not killed;

in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.

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.

All the saints greet you, especially those who are of Caesar’s household.

He may sentence him to no more than forty stripes. He shall not give more, lest if he should give more and beat him more than that many stripes, then your brother will be degraded in your sight.

The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening; and he drank from the brook.

Say, ‘The king says, “Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.” ’ ”

and say, ‘The king says, “Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I return in peace.” ’ ”

Trust in Yahweh, and do good. Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture.

They shall not be disappointed in the time of evil. In the days of famine they shall be satisfied.

My soul is continually in my hand, yet I won’t forget your law.

When a man’s ways please Yahweh, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

The fear of man proves to be a snare, but whoever puts his trust in Yahweh is kept safe.

But you will be called Yahweh’s priests. Men will call you the servants of our God. You will eat the wealth of the nations. You will boast in their glory.

Then Zedekiah the king commanded, and they committed Jeremiah into the court of the guard. They gave him daily a loaf of bread out of the bakers’ street, until all the bread in the city was gone. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.

Then they took Jeremiah and threw him into the dungeon of Malchijah the king’s son, that was in the court of the guard. They let down Jeremiah with cords. In the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire.

Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests! Wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God, for the meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from your God’s house.

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

But he who is greatest among you will be your servant.

But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day.

He said to them, “This kind can come out by nothing, except by prayer and fasting.”

They were exceedingly astonished, saying to him, “Then who can be saved?”

and laid hands on the apostles, then put them in public custody.

When 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.”

As they served the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, “Separate Barnabas and Saul for me, for the work to which I have called them.”

Then, when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.

But some Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.

When they had appointed elders for them in every assembly, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.

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.

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.’ ”

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.

But when two years were fulfilled, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus, and desiring to gain favor with the Jews, Felix left Paul in bonds.

However Festus answered that Paul should be kept in custody at Caesarea, and that he himself was about to depart shortly.

I also did this in Jerusalem. I both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests, and when they were put to death I gave my vote against them.

But when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and laid them on the fire, a viper came out because of the heat, and fastened on his hand.

that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest of the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

Greet Andronicus and Junia, my relatives and my fellow prisoners, who are notable among the apostles, who were also in Christ before me.

So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants, and stewards of God’s mysteries.

Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,

in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.

Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself.) I am more so: in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, and in deaths often.

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.

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

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

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

so that it became evident to the whole palace guard, and to all the rest, that my bonds are in Christ,

even as you learned of Epaphras our beloved fellow servant, who is a faithful servant of Christ on your behalf,

if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.

For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.

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,

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

but in his own time revealed his word in the message with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior;

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

You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.