Acts 16:23
Good News Translation
After a severe beating, they were thrown into jail, and the jailer was ordered to lock them up tight.

New Revised Standard Version
After they had given them a severe flogging, they threw them into prison and ordered the jailer to keep them securely.

Contemporary English Version
After they had been badly beaten, they were put in jail, and the jailer was told to guard them carefully.

New American Bible
After inflicting many blows on them, they threw them into prison and instructed the jailer to guard them securely.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the gaoler to keep them diligently.

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And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the gaoler to keep them diligently.

they cast.

Acts 5:18 And they laid hands on the apostles and put them in the common prison.

Acts 8:3 But Saul made havock of the church, entering in from house to house: and dragging away men and women, committed them to prison.

Acts 9:2 And asked of him letters to Damascus, to the synagogues: that if he found any men and women of this way, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

Acts 12:4 And when he had apprehended him, he cast him into prison, delivering him to four files of soldiers, to be kept, intending, after the pasch, to bring him forth to the people.

Luke 21:12 But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and into prisons, dragging you before kings and governors, for my name's sake.

Ephesians 3:1 For this cause, I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ, for you Gentiles:

Ephesians 4:1 I therefore, a prisoner in the Lord, beseech you that you walk worthy of the vocation in which you are called:

2 Timothy 2:9 Wherein I labour even unto bands, as an evildoer. But the word of God is not bound.

Philemon 1:9 For charity sake I rather beseech, whereas thou art such a one, as Paul, an old man and now a prisoner also of Jesus Christ.

Revelation 1:9 I, John, your brother and your partner in tribulation and in the kingdom and patience in Christ Jesus, was in the island which is called Patmos, for the word of God and for the testimony of Jesus.

Revelation 2:10 Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer. Behold, the devil will cast some of you into prison, that you may be tried: and you shall have tribulation ten days. Be thou faithful unto death: and I will give thee the crown of life.

to keep.

Acts 5:23 Saying: The prison indeed we found shut with all diligence, and the keepers standing before the door: but opening it, we found no man within.

Acts 12:18 Now when day was come, there was no small stir among the soldiers, what was become of Peter.

1 Samuel 23:22,23 Go, therefore, I pray you, and use all diligence, and curiously inquire, and consider the place where his foot is, and who hath seen him there: for he thinketh of me, that I lie craftily in wait for him. . . .

Matthew 26:48 And he that betrayed him gave them a sign, saying: Whomsoever I shall kiss, that is he. Hold him fast.

Matthew 27:63-66 Saying: Sir, we have remembered, that that seducer said, while he was yet alive: After three days I will rise again. . . .

Context
Paul and Silas Imprisoned
22And the people ran together against them: and the magistrates, rending off their clothes, commanded them to be beaten with rods. 23And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the gaoler to keep them diligently. 24Who having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison and made their feet fast in the stocks.…
Cross References
Acts 16:27
And the keeper of the prison, awakening out of his sleep and seeing the doors of the prison open, drawing his sword, would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled.

Acts 16:36
And the keeper of the prison told these words to Paul: The magistrates have sent to let you go. Now therefore depart. And go in peace.

2 Corinthians 6:5
In stripes, in prisons, in seditions, in labours, in watchings, in fastings,

2 Corinthians 11:23
They are the ministers of Christ (I speak as one less wise): I am more; in many more labours, in prisons more frequently, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.

Acts 16:22
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