Bible Verses About Prisoners

And certain having risen up, were bearing false testimony against him, saying--

`We heard him saying--I will throw down this sanctuary made with hands, and by three days, another made without hands I will build;'

and neither so was their testimony alike.

And the chief priest, having risen up in the midst, questioned Jesus, saying, `Thou dost not answer anything! what do these testify against thee?'

and he was keeping silent, and did not answer anything. Again the chief priest was questioning him, and saith to him, `Art thou the Christ--the Son of the Blessed?'

and Jesus said, `I am; and ye shall see the Son of Man sitting on the right hand of the power, and coming with the clouds, of the heaven.'

And the chief priest, having rent his garments, saith, `What need have we yet of witnesses?

Ye heard the evil speaking, what appeareth to you?' and they all condemned him to be worthy of death,

and certain began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to buffet him, and to say to him, `Prophesy;' and the officers were striking him with their palms.

And Peter being in the hall beneath, there doth come one of the maids of the chief priest,

and having seen Peter warming himself, having looked on him, she said, `And thou wast with Jesus of Nazareth!'

and he denied, saying, `I have not known him , neither do I understand what thou sayest;' and he went forth without to the porch, and a cock crew.

And the maid having seen him again, began to say to those standing near--`This is of them;'

and he was again denying. And after a little again, those standing near said to Peter, `Truly thou art of them, for thou also art a Galilean, and thy speech is alike;'

and he began to anathematize, and to swear--`I have not known this man of whom ye speak;'

and a second time a cock crew, and Peter remembered the saying that Jesus said to him--`Before a cock crow twice, thou mayest deny me thrice;' and having thought thereon--he was weeping.

And at every feast he was releasing to them one prisoner, whomsoever they were asking;

and Pilate, wishing to content the multitude, released to them Barabbas, and delivered up Jesus--having scourged him --that he might be crucified.

added also this to all, that he shut up John in the prison.

`The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, Because He did anoint me; To proclaim good news to the poor, Sent me to heal the broken of heart, To proclaim to captives deliverance, And to blind receiving of sight, To send away the bruised with deliverance,

And while he is speaking, lo, a multitude, and he who is called Judas, one of the twelve, was coming before them, and he came nigh to Jesus to kiss him,

and Jesus said to him, `Judas, with a kiss the Son of Man dost thou deliver up?'

And those about him, having seen what was about to be, said to him, `Sir, shall we smite with a sword?'

And a certain one of them smote the servant of the chief priest, and took off his right ear,

and Jesus answering said, `Suffer ye thus far,' and having touched his ear, he healed him.