Bible Verses About Prisoners

Then there arose certaine, and bare false witnesse against him, saying,

We hearde him say, I will destroy this Temple made with hands, and within three daies I will builde another, made without hands.

But their witnesse yet agreed not together.

Then the hie Priest stoode vp amongst them, and asked Iesus, saying, Answerest thou nothing? what is the matter that these beare witnesse against thee?

But hee helde his peace, and answered nothing. Againe the hie Priest asked him, and sayde vnto him, Art thou that Christ the Sonne of the Blessed?

And Iesus said, I am he, and yee shall see the Sonne of man sitte at the right hande of the power of God, and come in the clouds of heauen.

Then the hie Priest rent his clothes, and sayd, What haue we any more neede of witnesses?

Ye haue heard the blasphemie: what thinke yee? And they all condemned him to be worthie of death.

And some began to spit at him, and to couer his face, and to beate him with fists, and to say vnto him, Prophesie. And the sergeants smote him with their roddes.

And as Peter was beneath in the hal, there came one of the maides of the hie Priest.

And when shee sawe Peter warming him selfe, shee looked on him, and sayde, Thou wast also with Iesus of Nazareth.

But he denied it, saying, I knowe him not, neither wot I what thou saiest. Then he went out into the porche, and the cocke crewe.

Then a maid sawe him againe, and bega to say to them that stood by, This is one of them.

But hee denied it againe: and anon after, they that stoode by, sayde againe to Peter, Surely thou art one of them: for thou art of Galile, and thy speach is like.

And he began to curse, and sweare, saying, I knowe not this man of whom ye speake.

Then the seconde time the cocke crewe, and Peter remembred the woorde that Iesus had saide vnto him, Before the cocke crowe twise, thou shalt denie me thrise, and waying that with himselfe, he wept.

Nowe at the feast, Pilate did deliuer a prisoner vnto them, whomesoeuer they woulde desire.

So Pilate willing to content the people, loosed them Barabbas, and deliuered Iesus, when he had scourged him, that he might be crucified.

He added yet this aboue all, that he shut vp Iohn in prison.

The Spirit of the Lord is vpon mee, because he hath anoynted me, that I should preach the Gospel to the poore: he hath sent mee, that I should heale the broken hearted, that I should preach deliuerance to the captiues, and recouering of sight to the blinde, that I should set at libertie them that are bruised:

And while he yet spake, beholde, a companie, and he that was called Iudas one of the twelue, went before them, and came neere vnto Iesus to kisse him.

And Iesus saide vnto him, Iudas, betrayest thou the Sonne of man with a kisse?

Now when they which were about him, saw what would follow, they said vnto him, Lord, shall we smite with sworde?

And one of them smote a seruant of the hie Priest, and strooke off his right eare.

Then Iesus answered, and said, Suffer them thus farre: and he touched his eare, and healed him.