But the LORD was with Joseph, and shewed him mercy, and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison.
Ver. 21. But the Lord was with Joseph.] A prison keeps not God from his; witness the apostles and martyrs, whose prisons, by God's presence, became palaces; the fiery furnace, a gallery of pleasure; the stocks, a music school. Act 16:25 Bradford, after he was put in prison, had better health than before; and found great favour with his keeper, who suffered him to go whither he would, upon his promise to return by such an hour to his prison again. a
a Act. and Mon., fol. 1489, 1457.