John 8:17

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It is also written in your law, that the testimony of two men is true.

"Does it not stand written in your Law," replied Jesus, "'I said, you are gods'?

But this has been so, in order that the saying may be fulfilled which stands written in their Law, 'They have hated me without any reason.'

So that the Law has acted the part of a tutor-slave to lead us to Christ, in order that through faith we may be declared to be free from guilt.

Tell me--you who want to continue to be subject to Law--will you not listen to the Law?

But if he will not listen to you, go again, and ask one or two to go with you, that every word spoken may be attested by two or three witnesses.

This intended visit of mine is my third visit to you. "On the evidence of two or three witnesses every charge shall be sustained."

Any one who bids defiance to the Law of Moses is put to death without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

If we accept the testimony of men, God's testimony is greater: for God's testimony consists of the things which He has testified about His Son.

And I will authorize My two witnesses to prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.