Bible Verses About Prisoners

Then shalt thou say vnto them, I humbly besought the King that he would not cause me to returne to Iehonathans house, to die there.

Then came all the princes vnto Ieremiah and asked him. And he tolde them according to all these wordes that the King had commanded: so they left off speaking with him, for the matter was not perceiued.

So Ieremiah abode still in the court of the prison, vntill the day that Ierusalem was taken: and he was there, when Ierusalem was taken.

Euen they sent, and tooke Ieremiah out of the court of the prison, and committed him vnto Gedaliah the sonne of Ahikam the sonne of Shaphan, that he should cary him home: so he dwelt among the people.

And when Iohn heard in the prison the woorkes of Christ, he sent two of his disciples, and sayde vnto him,

For Herod had taken Iohn, and bounde him, and put him in prison for Herodias sake, his brother Philips wife.

For Iohn saide vnto him, It is not lawfull for thee to haue her.

And when hee woulde haue put him to death, hee feared the multitude, because they counted him as a Prophet.

But when Herods birth day was kept, the daughter of Herodias daunced before them, and pleased Herod.

Wherefore he promised with an othe, that he would giue her whatsoeuer she would aske.

And shee being before instructed of her mother, sayde, Giue mee here Iohn Baptists head in a platter.

And the King was sorie: neuerthelesse because of the othe, and them that sate with him at the table, he commanded it to be giuen her,

And sent, and beheaded Iohn in the prison.

And his head was brought in a platter, and giuen to the maide, and shee brought it vnto her mother.

And his disciples came, and tooke vp the bodie, and buried it, and went, and tolde Iesus.

For I was an hungred, and ye gaue me meate: I thirsted, and ye gaue me drinke: I was a stranger, and ye tooke me in vnto you.

I was naked, and ye clothed me: I was sicke, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came vnto me.

Then shall the righteous answere him, saying, Lord, when sawe we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or a thirst, and gaue thee drinke?

And when sawe we thee a stranger, and tooke thee in vnto vs? or naked, and clothed thee?

Or when sawe we thee sicke, or in prison, and came vnto thee?

And the King shall answere, and say vnto them, Verely I say vnto you, in as much as ye haue done it vnto one of the least of these my brethre, ye haue done it to me.

Then shall he say vnto them on ye left hand, Depart from me ye cursed, into euerlasting fire, which is prepared for the deuill and his angels.

For I was an hungred, and ye gaue me no meate: I thirsted, and ye gaue me no drinke:

I was a stranger, and ye tooke me not in vnto you: I was naked, and ye clothed me not: sicke, and in prison, and ye visited me not.

Then shall they also answere him, saying, Lord, when sawe we thee an hungred, or a thirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sicke, or in prison, and did not minister vnto thee?