The very night before Herod was going to bring him out, Peter, bound with two chains, was sleeping between two soldiers, while guards in front of the door were keeping watch over the prison.
Acts 21:33 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Then the tribune came, arrested him, and ordered him to be bound with two chains; he inquired who he was and what he had done. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Then the chief captain came near, and took him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains; and demanded who he was, and what he had done. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Then the commandant approached and arrested Paul and ordered that he be secured with two chains. He then inquired who he was and what he had done. American Standard Version (1901) Then the chief captain came near, and laid hold on him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains; and inquired who he was, and what he had done. Common English Bible When the commander arrived, he arrested Paul and ordered him to be bound with two chains. Only then did he begin to ask who Paul was and what he had done. Catholic Public Domain Version Then the tribune, drawing near, apprehended him and ordered that he be bound with two chains. And he was asking who he was and what he had done. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Then the tribune coming near, took him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains: and demanded who he was, and what he had done. |
The very night before Herod was going to bring him out, Peter, bound with two chains, was sleeping between two soldiers, while guards in front of the door were keeping watch over the prison.
except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city that imprisonment and persecutions are waiting for me.
He came to us and took Paul’s belt, bound his own feet and hands with it, and said, “Thus says the Holy Spirit, ‘This is the way the Jews in Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt and will hand him over to the gentiles.’ ”
Immediately those who were about to examine him drew back from him, and the tribune also was afraid, for he realized that Paul was a Roman and that he had bound him.
Since he wanted to find out what Paul was being accused of by the Jews, the next day he released him and ordered the chief priests and the entire council to meet. He brought Paul down and had him stand before them.
I told them that it was not the custom of the Romans to hand over anyone before the accused had met the accusers face to face and had been given an opportunity to make a defense against the charge.
Paul replied, “Whether quickly or not, I pray to God that not only you but also all who are listening to me today might become such as I am—except for these chains.”
For this reason therefore I asked to see you and speak with you, since it is for the sake of the hope of Israel that I am bound with this chain.”
for which I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I may declare it boldly, as I must speak.
It is right for me to think this way about all of you, because I hold you in my heart, for all of you are my partners in God’s grace, both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel.
May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, because he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chain;
for which I suffer hardship, even to the point of being chained like a criminal. But the word of God is not chained.
They said to him, “No, we will only bind you and give you into their hands; we will not kill you.” So they bound him with two new ropes and brought him up from the rock.
So Delilah took new ropes and bound him with them and said to him, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” (The men lying in wait were in an inner chamber.) But he snapped the ropes off his arms like a thread.
So the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes. They brought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze shackles, and he ground at the mill in the prison.
Then the lords of the Philistines brought her seven fresh bowstrings that had not dried out, and she bound him with them.