Bible verses about Prisoners
(From Nave's Topical Bible)

-Joseph Genesis 39:20-23; 40; 41:1-44 -Jeremiah Jeremiah 38:6-28; 39:14 -John the Baptist Matthew 11:2; 14:3-12; Mark 6:17; Luke 3:20 -Jesus Matthew 26:47-75; 27; Mark 14:43-72; 15; Luke 22:47-71; 23; John 18:3-40; 19 -The apostles Acts 5:17-42 -Peter Acts 12:3-19 -Paul Acts 16:19-40; 21:27-40; 22; 23; 24; 25; 26; 27; 28 -Silas Acts 16:19-40 -Required to labor Judges 16:21 -Sustained on bread and water of affliction I Kings 22:27 -In chains Acts 12:6 -In stocks Proverbs 7:22; Jeremiah 29:26; Acts 16:24 -Confined .In the court of the palace Jeremiah 32:2 .In the house of the scribe Jeremiah 37:15 .In the house of the captain of the guard Genesis 40:3 -Visited by friends Matthew 11:2; Acts 24:23 -Bound to soldiers Acts 12:6, 7 -Severe hardships of, mitigated Jeremiah 37:20, 21 -Cruelty to Jeremiah 38:6; Lamentations 3:53, 54 -See CAPTIVE -Guards responsible for Acts 12:18, 19 -Tortured to extort self-incriminating testimony Acts 22:24 -Scourged Matthew 27:26; Mark 15:15; Acts 16:23, 33; II Corinthians 6:5; 11:23, 24 -Permitted to make defense Acts 24:10; 25:8, 16; 26:1; II Timothy 4:16 -Kindness to .By the prison guard to Jeremiah Jeremiah 38:7-28 .By the Philippian jailer to Paul Acts 16:33 .By Felix Acts 24:23 .By Julius, the centurion 28:16, Acts 27:1, 3; 30, 31 -To be visited and ministered to Matthew 25:35-46 -Released at feasts Matthew 27:15-17; Mark 15:6; Luke 23:17; John 18:39 -OF WAR .Put to death Joshua 10:16-27; I Samuel 15:33; 27:11; II Samuel 12:31; II Kings 25:7; I Chronicles 20:3; Hosea 13:16; Amos 1:13; Lamentations 3:34 .By divine command Numbers 31:9, 17 .Thumbs and toes cut off Judges 1:6, 7 .Blinded II Kings 25:7 .See CAPTIVE .Consolations for Psalms 69:33; 79:11; 102:19, 20; 146:7 .See CAPTIVE .See IMPRISONMENT -FIGURATIVE Isaiah 61:1; Luke 4:18