Bible Verses About Prisoners

But he denied it in front of everyone -- "I don't know what you're talking about!"

He went out onto the porch, and another girl saw him and said to the people there, "This man was with Yeshua of Natzeret."

Again he denied it, swearing, "I don't know the man!"

After a little while, the bystanders approached Kefa and said, "You must be one of them -- your accent gives you away."

This time he began to invoke a curse on himself as he swore, "I do not know the man!" -- and immediately a rooster crowed.

Kefa remembered what Yeshua had said, "Before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times"; and he went outside and cried bitterly.

It was the governor's custom during a festival to set free one prisoner, whom ever the crowd asked for.

There was at that time a notorious prisoner being held, named Yeshua Bar-Abba.

So when a crowd had gathered, Pilate said to them, "Whom do you want me to set free for you? Bar-Abba? or Yeshua, called `the Messiah'?"

Then he released to them Bar-Abba; but Yeshua, after having him whipped, he handed over to be executed on a stake.

For Herod had sent and had Yochanan arrested and chained in prison because of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip. Herod had married her,

While Yeshua was still speaking, Y'hudah (one of the Twelve!) came, and with him a crowd carrying swords and clubs, from the head cohanim, the Torah-teachers and the elders.

The betrayer had arranged to give them a signal: "The man I kiss is the one you want. Grab him, and take him away under guard."

As he ar ived, he went right up to Yeshua, said, "Rabbi!" and kissed him.

Then they laid hold of Yeshua and arrested him;

but one of the people standing nearby drew his sword and struck at the servant of the cohen hagadol, cutting off his ear.

Yeshua addressed them: "So you came out to take me with swords and clubs, the way you would the leader of a rebellion?

Every day I was with you in the Temple court, teaching, and you didn't seize me then! But let the Tanakh be fulfilled."

And they all deserted him and ran away.

There was one young man who did try to follow him; but he was wearing only a nightshirt; and when they tried to seize him,

he slipped out of the nightshirt and ran away naked.

They led Yeshua to the cohen hagadol, with whom all the head cohanim, elders and Torah-teachers were assembling.

Kefa followed him at a distance right into the courtyard of the cohen hagadol, where he sat down with the guards and warmed himself by the fire.

The head cohanim and the whole Sanhedrin tried to find evidence against Yeshua, so that they might have him put to death, but they couldn't find any.

For many people gave false evidence against him, but their testimonies didn't agree.