giving him authority to imprison his officials ¹  and to teach his advisers. ² 

A man named Barabbas was imprisoned with rebels who had committed murder during an insurrection.

He imprisoned ¹  them all for three days.

when the waters become hard ¹  like stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen solid?

For ¹  it is right for me to think this about all of you, because I have you in my heart, ²  since both in my imprisonment ³  and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel all of you became partners in God’s grace ⁴  together with me.

Pharaoh was enraged with his servants, and he put me in prison in the house of the captain of the guards – me and the chief baker.

For God has consigned all people to disobedience so that he may show mercy to them all. ¹ 

Now before faith ¹  came we were held in custody under the law, being kept as prisoners ²  until the coming faith would be revealed.

I want you to know, brothers and sisters, ¹  that my situation has actually turned out to advance the gospel: ² 

May the Lord grant mercy to the family of Onesiphorus, because he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my imprisonment. ¹ 

vindicates the oppressed, ¹  and gives food to the hungry. The Lord releases the imprisoned.

(Make the chain, ¹  because the land is full of murder ²  and the city is full of violence.)

Now when Jesus ¹  heard that John had been imprisoned, ²  he went into Galilee.

Now when John ¹  heard in prison about the deeds Christ ²  had done, he sent his disciples to ask a question: ³ 

Now after John was imprisoned, ¹  Jesus went into Galilee and proclaimed the gospel ²  of God. ³ 

and here he has authority from the chief priests to imprison ¹  all who call on your name!” ² 

Pharaoh Necho imprisoned him in Riblah in the land of Hamath and prevented him from ruling in Jerusalem. ¹  He imposed on the land a special tax ²  of one hundred talents ³  of silver and a talent of gold.

For King Zedekiah ¹  had confined Jeremiah there after he had reproved him for prophesying as he did. He had asked Jeremiah, “Why do you keep prophesying these things? Why do you keep saying that the Lord says, ‘I will hand this city over to the king of Babylon? I will let him capture it. ² 

Then King Zedekiah ordered that Jeremiah be committed to the courtyard of the guardhouse. He also ordered that a loaf of bread ¹  be given to him every day from the baker’s street until all the bread in the city was gone. So Jeremiah was kept ²  in the courtyard of the guardhouse.

Then Paul replied, “What are you doing, weeping and breaking ¹  my heart? For I am ready not only to be tied up, ²  but even to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”