²³ Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me.

²⁹ Then straightway they departed from him which should have examined him: and the chief captain also was afraid, after he knew that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him.

²⁰ For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

⁹ Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.