Putting him outside the city, they proceeded to stone him (the witnesses laid their clothes at the feet of a youth called Saul).

and that I stood and approved when the blood of your martyr Stephen was being shed, taking charge of the clothes of his murderers!'

Never let any charge be brought against a presbyter, unless it is certified by two or three witnesses.

Anyone who has rejected the law of Moses dies without mercy, on the evidence of two or of three witnesses.

Therefore, with all this host of witnesses encircling us, we must strip off every handicap, strip off sin with its clinging folds, to run our appointed course steadily,

I John, your brother and your companion in the distress and realm and patient endurance which Jesus brings, found myself in the island called Patmos, for adhering to God's word and the testimony of Jesus.

I know where you dwell, where Satan sits enthroned, and yet you adhere to my Name, you have not renounced your faith in me even during the days when my witness, my faithful Antipas, was martyred in your midst ??where Satan dwells.

And when he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been slain for adhering to God's word and to the testimony which they bore;

But I will allow my two witnesses to prophesy for twelve hundred and sixty days, clad in sackcloth

And I saw thrones with people sitting on them, who were allowed to judge ??saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and God's word, those who would not worship the Beast or his statue, and who would not receive his mark on their forehead or hand; they came to life and reigned along with the Christ for a thousand years.