Quotes about Imprisonment
and they pulled him up with the ropes and lifted him out of the cistern. And Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard.
— Jeremiah 38:13
Then he put out Zedekiah’s eyes, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon, where he kept him in custody until his dying day.
— Jeremiah 52:11
He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed me down with chains.
— Lamentations 3:7
And you, son of man, they will tie with ropes, and you will be bound so that you cannot go out among the people.
— Ezekiel 3:25
Meanwhile John heard in prison about the works of Christ, and he sent his disciples
— Matthew 11:2
Now Herod had arrested John and bound him and put him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife,
— Matthew 14:3
and sent to have John beheaded in the prison.
— Matthew 14:10
And a man named Barabbas was imprisoned with the rebels who had committed murder during the insurrection.
— Mark 15:7
Herod added this to them all: He locked John up in prison.
— Luke 3:20
(Barabbas had been imprisoned for an insurrection in the city, and for murder.)
— Luke 23:19
(For John had not yet been thrown into prison.)
— John 3:24
But Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to house, he dragged off men and women and put them in prison.
— Acts 8:3