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Arrest And Imprisonment Of The Apostles In Tarrant
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The High Priest and other Jewish leaders from Jerusalem had accused Paul of being a troublemaker. They told lies and said he had disrespected God's temple and tried to cause riots. They even wanted him put to death.
As he discusses it, Droge turns his main attention to Paul and Philippians -26. In the discussion, he concludes that Paul is expressing a wish for suicide. He defines this hypothesis by a reading of the passage in its cultural context.
The Bible contains several accounts of the apostles being jailed. For example, in Acts 4, Peter and John were taken into custody for teaching that Jesus is the Messiah. After being questioned, they were let go and told not to talk about Jesus anymore. In Acts 12, King Herod put Peter in jail.
The outcome of the apostles' imprisonment after their arrest in Jerusalem varied. Some were released and continued preaching, while others spent the remainder of their lives in prison.
Conversely, Paul was imprisoned for his religious expression. He was in prison because he refused to be silent in proclaiming the gospel. Given our negative conception of prison, Paul's own statements regarding his imprisonment should be slightly disorienting because they are often framed in a positive light.
Patmos is an island where the apostle John was exiled “for speaking about God and bearing witness to Jesus.” (Re ) It was while there, he received the Revelation.
Acts –26 occurs after the chief priests arrested Peter and John for preaching and healing in Jesus' name, and ordered them not to do so again (Acts –22). Now, all the apostles are healing and preaching in Jesus' name (Acts –16), and so the priests arrest them all.
The Bible contains several accounts of the apostles being jailed. For example, in Acts 4, Peter and John were taken into custody for teaching that Jesus is the Messiah. After being questioned, they were let go and told not to talk about Jesus anymore. In Acts 12, King Herod put Peter in jail.
It is traditionally believed that John was the youngest of the apostles and survived all of them. He is said to have lived to old age, dying of natural causes at Ephesus sometime after AD 98, during the reign of Trajan, thus becoming the only apostle who did not die as a martyr.
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The priests and rulers were filled with indignation, and laid their hands on the apostles, and put them in the common prison. Paul returns to Jerusalem where he is arrested and a long period of confinement in various locations begins.The public nature of the jail also suggests that the authorities wanted to make an example of the apostles, showing that their message would not be tolerated. When the high priest and his companions arrived, they convened the Sanhedrin, the full senate of the Israelites, and sent to the jail to have them brought in. The chief priests arrested the apostles for teaching and healing in Jesus' name (Acts –18). The Sadducees came and arrested Peter and John for were preaching the gospel in Solomon's Portico. After a night in jail the two were released. (17-18) The arrest and imprisonment of the apostles. They arrested the apostles and put them in the public jail. But an angel of the Lord came at night, opened the gates of the jail, and brought them out.