Thematic Bible: The accused
Thematic Bible
Courts of justice » The accused » The evidence of two or more witnesses required in
The third time am I coming to you. By the mouth of two or three witnesses, every matter shall be established.
Verse Concepts
It is also written in your law, The testimony of two is worthy of credit.
Verse Concepts
Courts of justice » The accused » Permitted to plead their own cause
Then Agrippa said to Paul: You are permitted to speak for yourself. Then Paul stretched forth his hand, and answered for himself.
Verse Concepts
Then Paul, after the governor had nodded to him to speak, answered: Knowing that you have been for many years a judge of this nation, I do the more cheerfully offer a defense for my self:
Verse Concepts
Courts of justice » The accused » Sometimes treated with insult
Then did they spit in his face, and strike him with their fists; some struck him with the open hand,
Verse Concepts
When he had spoken thus, one of the attendants, who was standing by, struck Jesus with his open hand, saying: Do you answer the chief priest thus? Jesus answered him: If I have spoken evil, testify of the evil; but if well, why do you strike me?
Courts of justice » The accused » Stood before the judge
And Jesus stood before the governor; and the governor asked him, saying: Are you the king of the Jews? Jesus replied to him: You say it.
Verse Concepts
Courts of justice » The accused » Examined on oath
But Jesus remained silent. And the chief priest answered and said to him: I adjure you, by the living God, that you tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God?
Verse Concepts
Courts of justice » The accused » Sometimes examined by torture
the officer commanded him to be led into the fortress, and gave orders that he should be examined by scourging, that he might know for what cause they so cried out against him.
Verse Concepts
Then, those who were about to examine him, immediately departed from him. And the officer was afraid, when he learned that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him.
Verse Concepts