Matthew 18:30

cast him into prison. The Papyri show that this was. widespread Graeco-Roman-Egyptian custom.

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Went with him before a magistrate, and cast him into prison, protesting he should lie there, till he should pay the whole debt.

³⁰ And he would not: but went and cast him into prison, till he should pay the debt.

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