And God has placed these in the church:

first apostles, second prophets,
third teachers, next miracles,
then gifts of healing, helping,
managing, various kinds of languages.

And He personally gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers,

Witnesses

Then I saw thrones, and people seated on them who were given authority to judge. I also saw the people

who had been beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus and because of God’s word, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and who had not accepted the mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with the Messiah for 1,000 years.

You are witnesses of these things.

You also will testify, because you have been with Me from the beginning.

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come on you, and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

“God has resurrected this Jesus. We are all witnesses of this.

You killed the source of life, whom God raised from the dead; we are witnesses of this.

and He appeared for many days to those who came with Him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now His witnesses to the people.

They shall

Then I fell at his feet to worship him, but he said to me, “Don’t do that! I am a fellow slave with you and your brothers who have the testimony about Jesus. Worship God, because the testimony about Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.”

A thousand

But exclude the courtyard outside the sanctuary. Don’t measure it, because it is given to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for 42 months.

The woman fled into the wilderness, where she had a place prepared by God, to be fed there for 1,260 days.

Clothed

Then Jacob tore his clothes, put sackcloth around his waist, and mourned for his son many days.

When David looked up and saw the angel of the Lord standing between earth and heaven, with his drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem, David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell down with their faces to the ground.

When Mordecai learned all that had occurred, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and ashes, went into the middle of the city, and cried loudly and bitterly.

I have sewn sackcloth over my skin;
I have buried my strength in the dust.

On that day the Lord God of Hosts
called for weeping, for wailing, for shaven heads,
and for the wearing of sackcloth.

י YodThe elders of Daughter 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, “I assure you: Unless someone is born of water and the Spirit,

he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

General references

Then Jacob tore his clothes, put sackcloth around his waist, and mourned for his son many days.

“If anyone kills a person, the murderer is to be put to death based on the word of witnesses. But no one is to be put to death based on the testimony of one witness.

that I have intense sorrow and continual anguish in my heart.