Bible Verses About Prisoners

Some stood up and gave this false testimony:

"We heard him say, `I will destroy this Temple made with hands; and in three days I will build another one, not made with hands.'"

Even so, their testimonies didn't agree.

The cohen hagadol stood up in the front and asked Yeshua, "Have you nothing to say to the accusations these men are making?"

But he remained silent and made no reply. Again the cohen hagadol questioned him: "Are you the Mashiach, Ben-HaM'vorakh?"

"I AM," answered Yeshua. "Moreover, you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of HaG'vurah and coming on the clouds of heaven."

At this, the cohen hagadol tore his clothes and said, "Why do we still need witnesses?

You heard him blaspheme! What is your decision?" And they all declared him guilty and subject to the death penalty.

Then some began spitting at him; and after blindfolding him, they started pounding him with their fists and saying to him, "Let's see you prophesy!" And as the guards took him, they beat him too.

Meanwhile, Kefa was still in the courtyard below. One of the serving girls of the cohen hagadol

saw Kefa warming himself, took a look at him, and said, "You were with the man from Natzeret, Yeshua!"

But he denied it, saying, "I haven't the faintest idea what you're talking about!" He went outside into the entryway, and a rooster crowed.

The girl saw him there and started telling the bystanders, "This fellow is one of them."

Again he denied it. A little later, the bystanders themselves said to Kefa, "You must be one of them, because you're from the Galil."

At this he began to invoke a curse on himself as he swore, "I do not know this man you are telling me about!" --

and immediately the rooster crowed a second time. Then Kefa remembered what Yeshua had said to him, "Before the rooster crows twice, you will disown me three times." And throwing himself down, he burst into tears.

Now during a festival, Pilate used to set free one prisoner, whomever the crowd requested.

So Pilate, wishing to satisfy the mob, set Bar-Abba free for them; but he had Yeshua whipped and then handed him over to be executed on the stake.

whereupon Herod added this to the rest: he locked up Yochanan in prison.

"The Spirit of ADONAI is upon me; therefore he has anointed me to announce Good News to the poor; he has sent me to proclaim freedom for the imprisoned and renewed sight for the blind, to release those who have been crushed,

While he was still speaking, a crowd of people arrived, with the man called Y’hudah (one of the Twelve!) leading them. He came up to Yeshua to kiss him,

but Yeshua said to him, “Y’hudah, are you betraying the Son of Man with a kiss?”

When his followers saw what was going to happen, they said, “Lord, should we use our swords?”

One of them struck at the slave of the cohen hagadol and cut off his right ear.

But Yeshua answered, “Just let me do this,” and, touching the man’s ear, he healed him.