18And laid their hands on the apostles, and put them in the common prison.
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And they laid hands on them, and put them in hold unto the next day: for it was now eventide.
Are they ministers of Christ?(I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name's sake.
And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:
And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely: …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-25)Never did any good work go on with any hope of success, but it met with opposition; those that are bent to do mischief cannot be reconciled to those who make it their business to do good. Satan, the destroyer of mankind, ever was, and will be, an adversary to those who are the benefactors of mankind; and it would have been strange if the apostles had gone on thus teaching and healing and had had n…
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