Peter and John were also repeatedly thrown in jail, and, like Paul, they too were sometimes busted out of jail by divine intervention.225 The early church was actually led by a bunch of jail-birds, and God was primary accomplice in their escape! Now in examining this biblical material for guidance on a Christian perspective on prisons, we must always keep in mind that imprisonment served a different function in biblical times than it does in modern liberal democracies. Society at this time was also