But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you, and will persecute you, giving you over into the synagogues and prisons, being led away before kings and governors on account of My name.
whom capturing him also, he put him into prison, giving him over to four sets of four soldiers to guard him, intending to bring him up to the people after the Passover.
And becoming awake, and seeing the doors of the prison being opened, drawing a sword, the prison-keeper was about to kill himself, supposing the prisoners to have escaped.
saying, Indeed we found the jail having been shut in all security, and the guards outside standing before the doors. But opening it, we found no one inside.
he asked from him letters to Damascus, to the synagogues, so that if he found any being of the Way, both men and women, they having been bound, he might bring them to Jerusalem.
Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as beside myself) I being beyond them: in labors, more abundantly; in stripes, beyond measure; in prisons, much more; in deaths, many times.
I, even your brother John, and cosharer in the affliction, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, came to be in the island being called Patmos on account of the Word of God, and for the witness of Jesus Christ.
Fear nothing of what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some from you into prison, so that you may be tried; and you will have affliction ten days. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.