The Bible Opened to Suffering People

It only makes sense that if much of the Bible was written by suffering people, then suffering people would have insights into the word that non-sufferers would not.  This was true for Bunyan.  I can only imagine what it must have been like for Bunyan to sit in his prison cell and read Paul's letters that were written from prison.

"I never had in all my life so great an inlet into the Word of God as now [in prison].  Those scriptures that I saw nothing in before were made in this place and state to shine upon me.  Jesus Christ also was never more real and apparent than now.  Here I have seen Him and felt Him indeed.... I have had sweet sight of the forgiveness of my sins in this place, and of my being with Jesus in another world.... I never knew what it was for God to stand by me at all times and at every offer of Satan to afflict me, as I have found Him since I came in hither."