And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, administrating, and various kinds of tongues.

And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers,

Witnesses

Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

You are witnesses of these things.

And you also will bear witness, because you have been with me from the beginning.

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

This Jesus God raised up, and of that we all are witnesses.

and you killed the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this we are witnesses.

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

They shall

Then I fell down at his feet to worship him, but he said to me, "You must not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers who hold to the testimony of Jesus. Worship God." For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.

A thousand

but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months.

and the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, in which she is to be nourished for 1,260 days.

Clothed

Then Jacob tore his garments and put sackcloth on his loins and mourned for his son many days.

And David lifted his eyes and saw the angel of the LORD standing between earth and heaven, and in his hand a drawn sword stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.

When Mordecai learned all that had been done, Mordecai tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and he cried out with a loud and bitter cry.

I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin and have laid my strength in the dust.

In that day the Lord GOD of hosts called for weeping and mourning, for baldness and wearing sackcloth;

The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence; they have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackcloth; the young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.

Jesus answered, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

General references

Then Jacob tore his garments and put sackcloth on his loins and mourned for his son many days.

"If anyone kills a person, the murderer shall be put to death on the evidence of witnesses. But no person shall be put to death on the testimony of one witness.

that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.