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Acts 16:23 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

23 After beating them severely, they threw them in jail and ordered the jailor to have them securely guarded.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

23 And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely:

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Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

23 And when they had struck them with many blows, they threw them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely.

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American Standard Version (1901)

23 And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely:

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Common English Bible

23 When Paul and Silas had been severely beaten, the authorities threw them into prison and ordered the jailer to secure them with great care.

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Catholic Public Domain Version

23 And when they had inflicted many scourges on them, they cast them into prison, instructing the guard to watch them diligently.

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Acts 16:23
21 Referencias Cruzadas  

Do not be afraid of the things you are about to suffer. [For] look, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, so that you may be tested, and you will suffer persecution for ten days. [But], you should be faithful [to God] even to the point of dying [for Him], and I will give you the crown of [never ending] life.


for which I am suffering difficulty [here] in prison, as [though I were] a criminal. But God’s message is not “in prison.”


yet out of [mutual] love, I appeal to you [to do what I ask]. For I Paul, am an old man, and now also a prisoner of Christ Jesus. [Note: Most calculations suggest that Paul was approximately 60 years old, which was considered a relatively advanced age in that day].


I urge you, therefore, as a prisoner of the Lord, to live in a way that measures up to [the standard required by] God when He called you.


This is the reason that I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles, [pray for you. See 3:14-19].


The jailor then informed Paul [of the officials’ decision], saying, “The city officials have decided to release you so you may leave the jail [if] you go peacefully.”


The jailor, who was awakened from sleep [by the commotion] saw the jail doors open so drew his [short] sword and prepared to kill himself, assuming that all the prisoners had escaped. [Note: He would have faced a humiliating execution himself if he had allowed capital offense criminals to escape. With that prospect in view, it was considered honorable by the Romans for a person to commit suicide].


Now as soon as it got daylight there was a lot of commotion among the soldiers over what had become of Peter.


So, Peter was arrested and put in jail with four groups of four soldiers each guarding him. Herod planned to have him brought before the people after the Passover Festival was over.


to ask for letters [authorizing him to go] to Damascus and to enter [Jewish] synagogues looking for people of “the Way” [Note: This was a designation for Christians at that time]. And if he found any, whether men or women, he would tie them up and take them to Jerusalem.


But Saul brought devastation to the church by entering everyone’s house and dragging men and women off to jail.


“We found the jail securely locked, with guards on duty at the doors, but when we went inside there was no one there!”


and arrested the apostles and put them in jail.


But before all these things happen, the authorities will grab hold of you, and persecute you, and turn you over to the synagogues and prisons [i.e., for punishment and confinement]. They will take you in front of kings and governors for being loyal to me.


Now the one who betrayed Him had given them a signal, saying, “Whoever I give a kiss [of greeting to], he is the one, take hold of him.”


I [am] John, your brother who participates with you in the suffering and kingdom and endurance [which we experience] in [fellowship with] Jesus. I was on the island called Patmos for [preaching] God’s message and for testifying about Jesus. [Note: Patmos was located in the Aegean Sea between present-day Greece and Turkey].


[We have been] beaten, jailed, and mobbed. [We have] worked hard, missed sleep and gone without food.


Are they servants of Christ? (I am really talking like a crazy person now). I am more [of a servant, than they are]. I have worked much harder. I have been in prison more often. I have been flogged more severely. I have been in danger of death more frequently.


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