Acts 4:3
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3 So they arrested them and put them in custody until the next day, for it was already evening.(A)
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Acts 5:18
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18 arrested the apostles and put them in the public prison.(A)
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Acts 16:19-24
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19 But when her owners saw that their hope of making money was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace before the authorities.(A) 20 When they had brought them before the magistrates, they said, “These men, these Jews, are disturbing our city(B) 21 and are advocating customs that are not lawful for us, being Romans, to adopt or observe.” 22 The crowd joined in attacking them, and the magistrates had them stripped of their clothing and ordered them to be beaten with rods.(C) 23 After they had given them a severe flogging, they threw them into prison and ordered the jailer to keep them securely.(D) 24 Following these instructions, he put them in the innermost cell and fastened their feet in the stocks.(E)
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Acts 12:1-3
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James Killed and Peter Imprisoned
12 About that time King Herod laid violent hands upon some who belonged to the church. 2 He had James, the brother of John, killed with the sword.(A) 3 After he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter also. (This was during the Festival of Unleavened Bread.)(B)
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Acts 9:2
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2 and asked him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any who belonged to the Way, men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.
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Acts 8:3
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3 But Saul was ravaging the church by entering house after house; dragging off both men and women, he committed them to prison.(A)
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Acts 6:12
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12 They stirred up the people as well as the elders and the scribes; then they suddenly confronted him, seized him, and brought him before the council.
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John 18:12
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Jesus before the High Priest
12 So the soldiers, their officer, and the Jewish police arrested Jesus and bound him.
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Luke 22:54
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Peter Denies Jesus
54 Then they seized him and led him away, bringing him into the high priest’s house. But Peter was following at a distance.(A)
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Luke 22:52
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52 Then Jesus said to the chief priests, the officers of the temple police, and the elders who had come for him, “Have you come out with swords and clubs as though I were a rebel?(A)
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Matthew 10:16-17
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Coming Persecutions
16 “I am sending you out like sheep into the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.(A) 17 Beware of them, for they will hand you over to councils and flog you in their synagogues,
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