Now if you are ready, at the time you hear the sound of the horn, the pipe, zither, the lyre, harp, and bagpipe, and all kinds of music, fall down and prostrate yourselves before the image which I have made. But if you do not prostrate yourselves, in that moment you shall be thrown into the middle of a burning fiery furnace. And who is that god who shall deliver you out of my hand?

So when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to guard him, intending to bring him out to the people after Passover.

Peter was therefore kept in prison, but constant prayer was offered to God for him by the church.

And when they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, commanding the jailer to keep them securely.

And at midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.