Deuteronomy 19:16

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Summary

Deuteronomy 19:16

If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong;

A false witness

General references

Deuteronomy 5:20

John 7:51

Bible References

A false witness

“You shall not bear a false report; do not join your hand with a wicked man to be a malicious witness.

and seat two worthless men before him, and let them testify against him, saying, ‘You cursed God and the king.’ Then take him out and stone him to death.”

Do not deliver me over to the

desire of my adversaries,

For false witnesses have risen against me,
And such as breathe out violence.

Malicious witnesses rise up;

They ask me of things that I do not know.

Now the chief priests and the whole

Council kept trying to obtain testimony against Jesus to put Him to death, and they were not finding any.

They put forward false witnesses who said, “This man incessantly speaks against this holy place and the Law;

General references

‘You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

“Our Law does not judge a man unless it first hears from him and knows what he is doing, does it?”