46 Bible Verses about Witnessing, Importance Of

and said to them, "The Scriptures said that Christ should suffer as he has done, and rise from the dead on the third day, and that repentance leading to the forgiveness of sins should be preached to all the heathen in his name. You are to be witnesses to all this, beginning at Jerusalem.

And the captain and the men with him who were watching Jesus, when they saw the earthquake and all that was happening, were dreadfully frightened and said, "He surely must have been a son of God!"

And when the captain who stood facing him saw how he expired he said, "This man was certainly a son of God!"

When the captain saw what had happened he praised God, and said, "This man was really innocent!"

"Come, here is a man who has told me everything I ever did! Do you suppose he is the Christ?"

And Jesus came up to them and said, "Full authority in heaven and on the earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all the heathen, baptize them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the holy Spirit,

And this good news of the kingdom will be preached all over the world, to testify to all the heathen, and then the end will come.

For before the end the good news must be preached to all the heathen.

but you will be given power when the holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be witnesses for me in Jerusalem and all over Judea and Samaria and to the very ends of the earth."

The Lord said to him, "Go! This man is the means I have chosen for carrying my name among the heathen and their kings, and among the descendants of Israel. For I am going to show him what he will have to endure for my sake."

There appeared a man by the name of John, with a message from God. He came to give testimony, to testify to the light, so that everyone might come to believe in it through him. He was not the light; he came to testify to the light.

(John testified to him and cried out??or it was he who said it??He who was to come after me is now ahead of me

It is of him that all the prophets bear witness that everyone that believes in him will have his sins forgiven in his name."

Pilate said to him, "Then you are a king?" Jesus answered, "As you say, I am a king. It was for this that I was born and for this that I came to the world, to give testimony for truth. Everyone who is on the side of truth listens to my voice."

He who comes from above is above all others. A son of earth belongs to earth and speaks of earth. He who comes from heaven is above all others. It is to what he has seen and heard that he gives testimony, and yet no one accepts his testimony. Whoever does accept it has thereby acknowledged that God is true.read more.
For he whom God has sent speaks God's words, for God gives him his Spirit without measure.

and from Jesus Christ the trustworthy witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the sovereign of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us and has released us from our sins by his blood

"To the angel of the church in Laodicea write: " 'The Amen, the true and faithful witness, the origin of God's creation, speaks thus:

The apostles gave their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus with great power, and God's favor rested richly upon them.

He is Jesus, whom God raised from the dead, and to whose resurrection we are all witnesses.

We are witnesses of everything that he did in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. Yet they put him upon a cross and killed him. But God raised him to life on the third day and caused him to be plainly seen, not by all the people, but by witnesses whom God had designated beforehand, that is, by us, who ate and drank with him after he had risen from the dead.read more.
He also directed us to announce to the people and bear solemn testimony that he is the one whom God has appointed to be the judge of the living and the dead.

But God raised him from the dead, and for many days he appeared to those who had come up to Jerusalem with him from Galilee, and they are now witnesses for him to the people.

It is what existed from the beginning, that we announce; what we have heard, what we have seen with our own eyes, what we have beheld, and touched with our hands; it is the very message of life??2 for life has been revealed, and we have seen it and testify to it and announce to you that eternal life that was with the Father and has been revealed to us??3 it is what we have seen and heard that we announce to you also, so that you may share our fellowship, for our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ,

So you must not be ashamed to testify to our Lord, nor be ashamed of me who am in prison for his sake, but join with me in suffering for the good news, through the power of God.

Philip reached the city of Samaria, and proclaimed the Christ to them.

And he has given us some men as apostles, some as prophets, some as missionaries, some as pastors and teachers,

But you are the chosen race, the royal priesthood, the consecrated nation, his own people, so that you may declare the virtues of him who has called you out of darkness into his wonderful light;

but reverence Christ in your hearts as Lord, and always be ready to make your defense to anyone who calls you to account for the hope that you have. But do so gently and respectfully,

Those who were scattered went from place to place preaching the good news of the message.

For if with your lips you acknowledge the message that Jesus is Lord, and with your mind you believe that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with their minds men believe and are made upright, and with their lips they make the acknowledgment and are saved.

Therefore everyone who will acknowledge me before men I will acknowledge before my Father in heaven, but anyone who disowns me before men, I will disown before my Father in heaven.

For if anyone is ashamed of me and my teachings in this unfaithful and sinful age, then the Son of Man will be ashamed of him, when he comes back in his Father's glory, with the holy angels."

I tell you, everyone who will acknowledge me before men, the Son of Man will acknowledge before the angels of God, but anyone who disowns me before men will be disowned before the angels of God.

In the same spirit of faith as his who said, "I believed, and so I spoke," I too believe, and so I speak,

No one who disowns the Son can have the Father. Whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father too.

If anyone acknowledges that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, God keeps in union with him and he with God.

Simon Peter answered, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God!"

And he asked them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter answered and said to him, "You are the Christ."

And he said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter answered, "The Christ of God!"

And they hurried there, and found Mary and Joseph, with the baby lying in the manger. When they saw this, they told what had been said to them about this child.

She said to him, "Yes, Master, I do indeed believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world."

Thomas answered him, "My Master and my God!"

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As Jesus was passing along from there, two blind men followed him, calling out, "Take pity on us, you Son of David!" When he had gone indoors, the blind men came up to him, and he said to them, "Do you believe that I can do this?" They said to him, "Yes, sir." Then he touched their eyes and said, "You shall have what your faith expects."read more.
And their sight was restored. Jesus warned them sternly not to let anyone hear of it. But they went out and spread the news about him all over that part of the country.

There came to him a leper appealing to him on his knees, saying to him, "If you only choose, you can cure me." And he pitied him and stretched out his hand and touched him, and said to him, "I do choose! Be cured!" And the leprosy immediately left him, and he was cured.read more.
And Jesus immediately drove him away with stern injunctions, saying to him, "See that you say nothing about this to anybody, but begone! show yourself to the priest, and in proof of your cure make the offerings for your purification which Moses prescribed." But he went off and began to talk so much about it, and to spread the story so widely, that Jesus could no longer go into a town openly, but stayed out in unfrequented places, and people came to him from every direction.

He answered, "I do not know about his being a sinful man. All I know is that I was blind before and now I can see."

for we cannot help telling of what we have seen and heard."