Bible Verses About Prisons: Sometimes allowed to be visited by their friends

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

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

Then hee commanded a Centurion to keepe Paul, and that he should haue ease, and that he should forbid none of his acquaintance to minister vnto him, or to come vnto him.