Acts 4:3

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.

He went away, and talked with the chief priests and captains about how he might deliver him to them.

For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God.

When he was in Benjamin’s gate, a captain of the guard was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he seized Jeremiah the prophet, saying, “You are defecting to the Chaldeans!”

Judas then, having taken a detachment of soldiers and officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, came there with lanterns, torches, and weapons.

Simon Peter followed Jesus, as did another disciple. Now that disciple was known to the high priest, and entered in with Jesus into the court of the high priest;

But Saul, still breathing threats and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest

But when some were hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of the Way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus.

About that time there arose no small disturbance concerning the Way.

amid which certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, not with a mob, nor with turmoil.

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.

For you have heard of my way of living in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the assembly of God and ravaged it.

concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.

although I used to be a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, and he took care of them. They stayed in prison many days.

Then Asa was angry with the seer, and put him in the prison; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. Asa oppressed some of the people at the same time.

Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, “Which way did Yahweh’s Spirit go from me to speak to you?”

They will fight against you, but they will not prevail against you; for I am with you”, says Yahweh, “to rescue you.”

All the land will be made like the Arabah, from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem; and she will be lifted up, and will dwell in her place, from Benjamin’s gate to the place of the first gate, to the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananel to the king’s wine presses.

Those who had taken Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were gathered together.

As they spoke to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came to them,

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

But Ananias answered, “Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how much evil he did to your saints at Jerusalem.

For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple and tried to kill me.

He asked Pharaoh’s officers who were with him in custody in his master’s house, saying, “Why do you look so sad today?”

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.” ’ ”

They conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of Yahweh’s house.

So the couriers passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, even to Zebulun, but people ridiculed them and mocked them.

but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until Yahweh’s wrath arose against his people, until there was no remedy.

A wrathful man stirs up contention, but one who is slow to anger appeases strife.

There are many plans in a man’s heart, but Yahweh’s counsel will prevail.

The burden of Damascus. “Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it will be a ruinous heap.

Yahweh, you have persuaded me, and I was persuaded. You are stronger than I, and have prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all day. Everyone mocks me.

“Yahweh has made you priest in the place of Jehoiada the priest, that there may be officers in Yahweh’s house, for every man who is crazy, and makes himself a prophet, that you should put him in the stocks and in shackles.

The king commanded Jerahmeel the king’s son, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to arrest Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet; but Yahweh hid them.

The princes were angry with Jeremiah, and struck him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe; for they had made that the prison.

Those who swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, ‘As your god, Dan, lives;’ and, ‘As the way of Beersheba lives;’ they will fall, and never rise up again.”

In that hour Jesus said to the multitudes, “Have you come out as against a robber with swords and clubs to seize me? I sat daily in the temple teaching, and you didn’t arrest me.

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

They led Jesus away to the high priest. All the chief priests, the elders, and the scribes came together with him.

Immediately in the morning the chief priests, with the elders and scribes, and the whole council, held a consultation, bound Jesus, carried him away, and delivered him up to Pilate.

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.

While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. I have kept those whom you have given me. None of them is lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

Then the captain went with the officers, and brought them without violence, for they were afraid that the people might stone them.

But some of those who were of the synagogue called “The Libertines”, and of the Cyrenians, of the Alexandrians, and of those of Cilicia and Asia arose, disputing with Stephen.

They threw him out of the city and stoned him. The witnesses placed their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.

Here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on your name.”

All who heard him were amazed, and said, “Isn’t this he who in Jerusalem made havoc of those who called on this name? And he had come here intending to bring them bound before the chief priests!”

But the Jews stirred up the devout and prominent women and the chief men of the city, and stirred up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and threw them out of their borders.

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.

I said, ‘Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue those who believed in you.

After five days, the high priest, Ananias, came down with certain elders and an orator, one Tertullus. They informed the governor against Paul.

But this I confess to you, that after the Way, which they call a sect, so I serve the God of our fathers, believing all things which are according to the law, and which are written in the prophets;

But Felix, having more exact knowledge concerning the Way, deferred them, saying, “When Lysias, the commanding officer, comes down, I will decide your case.”

But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?

He put them all together into custody for three days.

Boaz took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, “Sit down here,” and they sat down.

But there was no one like Ahab, who sold himself to do that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.

Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of hundreds who were set over the army, and said to them, “Bring her out between the ranks. Kill anyone who follows her with the sword.” For the priest said, “Don’t let her be slain in Yahweh’s house.”

He built the upper gate of Yahweh’s house, and he built much on the wall of Ophel.

He puts my feet in the stocks. He marks all my paths.’

My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand far away.

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.

Gathering together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he asked them where the Christ would be born.

The farmers took his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned another.

So they took him, and threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him.

They took him, beat him, and sent him away empty.

They laid their hands on him, and seized him.

But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My lord delays his coming,’ and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken,

At the proper season, he sent a servant to the farmers to collect his share of the fruit of the vineyard. But the farmers beat him, and sent him away empty.

Jesus said to the chief priests, captains of the temple, and elders, who had come against him, “Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs?

They seized him, and led him away, and brought him into the high priest’s house. But Peter followed from a distance.

So the detachment, the commanding officer, and the officers of the Jews seized Jesus and bound him,

Then the maid who kept the door said to Peter, “Are you also one of this man’s disciples?” He said, “I am not.”

When he had said this, one of the officers standing by slapped Jesus with his hand, saying, “Do you answer the high priest like that?”

They stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes, and came against him and seized him, then brought him in to the council,

Which of the prophets didn’t your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.

But Saul ravaged the assembly, entering into every house and dragged both men and women off to prison.

and asked for letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

When he had arrested him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four squads of four soldiers each to guard him, intending to bring him out to the people after the Passover.

When they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely,

When the seven days were almost completed, the Jews from Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the multitude and laid hands on him,

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

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