'Witnesses' in the Bible

"'Whoever kills any person, the murderer shall be slain at the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person that he die.

At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he who is to die be put to death; at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.

The hand of the witnesses shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.

One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sins: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be established.

Joshua said to the people, "You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen Yahweh yourselves, to serve him." They said, "We are witnesses."

Boaz said to the elders, and to all the people, "You are witnesses this day, that I have bought all that was Elimelech's, and all that was Chilion's and Mahlon's, from the hand of Naomi.

Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, I have purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance, that the name of the dead not be cut off from among his brothers, and from the gate of his place. You are witnesses this day."

All the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, "We are witnesses. May Yahweh make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which two built the house of Israel; and treat you worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem.

You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation on me. Changes and warfare are with me.

Don't deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.

Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I don't know about.

and I will take for myself faithful witnesses to testify: Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah."

Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the peoples be assembled. Who among them can declare this, and show us former things? Let them bring their witnesses, that they may be justified; or let them hear, and say, "That is true."

"You are my witnesses," says Yahweh, "With my servant whom I have chosen; that you may know and believe me, and understand that I am he. Before me there was no God formed, neither will there be after me.

I have declared, I have saved, and I have shown; and there was no strange god among you. Therefore you are my witnesses," says Yahweh, "and I am God.

Don't fear, neither be afraid. Haven't I declared it to you long ago, and shown it? You are my witnesses. Is there a God besides me? Indeed, there is not. I don't know any other Rock."

Everyone who makes an engraved image is vain. The things that they delight in will not profit. Their own witnesses don't see, nor know, that they may be disappointed.

I subscribed the deed, and sealed it, and called witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances.

and I delivered the deed of the purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the presence of Hanamel my uncle's son, and in the presence of the witnesses who subscribed the deed of the purchase, before all the Jews who sat in the court of the guard.

You have said to me, Lord Yahweh, Buy the field for money, and call witnesses; whereas the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.

Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe the deeds, and seal them, and call witnesses, in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the hill country, and in the cities of the lowland, and in the cities of the South: for I will cause their captivity to return, says Yahweh.

But if he doesn't listen, take one or two more with you, that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.

and they found none. Even though many false witnesses came forward, they found none. But at last two false witnesses came forward,

Then the high priest tore his clothing, saying, "He has spoken blasphemy! Why do we need any more witnesses? Behold, now you have heard his blasphemy.

Now the chief priests and the whole council sought witnesses against Jesus to put him to death, and found none.

The high priest tore his clothes, and said, "What further need have we of witnesses?

You are witnesses of these things.

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth."

This Jesus God raised up, to which we all are witnesses.

and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, to which we are witnesses.

We are His witnesses of these things; and so also is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him."

and set up false witnesses who said, "This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.

They threw him out of the city, and stoned him. The witnesses placed their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.

We are witnesses of everything he did both in the country of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they also killed, hanging him on a tree.

not to all the people, but to witnesses who were chosen before by God, to us, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.

and he was seen for many days by those who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses to the people.

Yes, we are found false witnesses of God, because we testified about God that he raised up Christ, whom he didn't raise up, if it is so that the dead are not raised.

This is the third time I am coming to you. "At the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established."

You are witnesses with God, how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.

Don't receive an accusation against an elder, except at the word of two or three witnesses.

Fight the good fight of faith. Lay hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

The things which you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit the same to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.

A man who disregards Moses' law dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses.

Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth."