So they arrested them and put them in jail until the next day, since it was already late.

They arrested the apostles and put them in the public jail.

But Saul tried to destroy the church; going from house to house, he dragged out the believers, both men and women, and threw them into jail.

"Then you will be arrested and handed over to be punished and be put to death. Everyone will hate you because of me.

Before all these things take place, however, you will be arrested and persecuted; you will be handed over to be tried in synagogues and be put in prison; you will be brought before kings and rulers for my sake.

Peter answered, "Lord, I am ready to go to prison with you and to die with you!"

"Where are you going, Lord?" Simon Peter asked him. "You cannot follow me now where I am going," answered Jesus; "but later you will follow me."

Jesus answered, "Are you really ready to die for me? I am telling you the truth: before the rooster crows you will say three times that you do not know me.

I am telling you the truth: when you were young, you used to get ready and go anywhere you wanted to; but when you are old, you will stretch out your hands and someone else will tie you up and take you where you don't want to go."

After a severe beating, they were thrown into jail, and the jailer was ordered to lock them up tight.

Upon receiving this order, the jailer threw them into the inner cell and fastened their feet between heavy blocks of wood.

Give orders, then, for his tomb to be carefully guarded until the third day, so that his disciples will not be able to go and steal the body, and then tell the people that he was raised from death. This last lie would be even worse than the first one."

So they left and made the tomb secure by putting a seal on the stone and leaving the guard on watch.

They gathered to do everything that you by your power and will had already decided would happen.

and when he learned that Mordecai was a Jew, he decided to do more than punish Mordecai alone. He made plans to kill every Jew in the whole Persian Empire.

In the twelfth year of King Xerxes' rule, in the first month, the month of Nisan, Haman ordered the lots to be cast ("purim," they were called) to find out the right day and month to carry out his plot. The thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, was decided on.

Runners took this proclamation to every province of the empire. It contained the instructions that on a single day, the thirteenth day of Adar, all Jews---young and old, women and children---were to be killed. They were to be slaughtered without mercy and their belongings were to be taken.

People may plan all kinds of things, but the LORD's will is going to be done.

Never boast about tomorrow. You don't know what will happen between now and then.

The will of the Lord alone is always carried out.

"We must not do it during the festival," they said, "or the people will riot."