'Witnesses' in the Bible

Anyone causing the death of another is himself to be put to death on the word of witnesses: but the word of one witness is not enough.

May heaven and earth be my witnesses against you today, that destruction will quickly overtake you, cutting you off from that land which you are going over Jordan to take; your days will not be long in that land, but you will come to a complete end.

On the word of two or three witnesses, a man may be given the punishment of death; but he is not to be put to death on the word of one witness.

The hands of the witnesses will be the first to put him to death, and after them the hands of all the people. So you are to put away the evil from among you.

One witness may not make a statement against a man in relation to any sin or wrongdoing which he has done: on the word of two or three witnesses a question is to be judged.

Let heaven and earth be my witnesses against you this day that I have put before you life and death, a blessing and a curse: so take life for yourselves and for your seed:

Get together before me all those who are in authority in your tribes, and your overseers, so that I may say these things in their hearing, and make heaven and earth my witnesses against them.

And Joshua said to the people, You are witnesses against yourselves that you have made the decision to be the servants of the Lord. And they said, We are witnesses.

Then Boaz said to the responsible men and to all the people, You are witnesses today that I have taken at a price from Naomi all the property which was Elimelech's, and everything which was Chilion's and Mahlon's.

And, further, I have taken Ruth, the Moabitess, who was the wife of Mahlon, to be my wife, to keep the name of the dead man living in his heritage, so that his name may not be cut off from among his countrymen, and from the memory of his town: you are witnesses this day.

And all the people who were in the public place, and the responsible men, said, We are witnesses. May the Lord make this woman, who is about to come into your house, like Rachel and Leah, which two were the builders of the house of Israel: and may you have wealth in Ephrathah, and be great in Beth-lehem;

That you would send new witnesses against me, increasing your wrath against me, and letting loose new armies on me.

Do not give me into their hands, because false witnesses have come out against me, and men breathing destruction.

O give praise to the Lord with me; let us be witnesses together of his great name.

False witnesses got up: they put questions to me about crimes of which I had no knowledge.

And take true witnesses to the writing, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah, the son of Jeberechiah.

Let all the nations come together, and let the peoples be present: who among them is able to make this clear, and give us word of earlier things? let their witnesses come forward, so that they may be seen to be true, and that they may give ear, and say, It is true.

You are my witnesses, says the Lord, and my servant whom I have taken for myself: so that you may see and have faith in me, and that it may be clear to you that I am he; before me there was no God formed, and there will not be after me.

I gave the word, and made it clear, and there was no strange god among you: for this reason you are my witnesses, says the Lord.

Even the people whom I made to be the witnesses of my praise.

Have no fear, be strong in heart; have I not made it clear to you in the past, and let you see it? and you are my witnesses. Is there any God but me, or a Rock of whom I have no knowledge?

And I put it in writing, stamping it with my stamp, and I took witnesses and put the money into the scales.

And I gave the paper to Baruch, the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, before the eyes of Hanamel, the son of my father's brother, and of the witnesses who had put their names to the paper, and before all the Jews who were seated in the place of the armed watchmen.

But if he will not give ear to you, take with you one or two more, that by the lips of two or three witnesses every word may be made certain.

So that you are witnesses against yourselves that you are the sons of those who put the prophets to death.

And they were not able to get it, though a number of false witnesses came.

Then the high priest, violently parting his robes, said, He has said evil against God: what more need have we of witnesses? for now his words against God have come to your ears:

Then says Pilate to him, Do you give no attention to what their witnesses say against you?

And the high priest, violently parting his robes, said, What more need have we of witnesses?

So you are witnesses and give approval to the work of your fathers; for they put them to death and you make their last resting-places.

You are witnesses of these things.

But you will have power, when the Holy Spirit has come on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and all Judaea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.

This Jesus God has given back to life, of which we all are witnesses.

And put to death the Lord of life; whom God gave back from the dead; of which fact we are witnesses.

And we are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who keep his laws.

And they got false witnesses who said, This man is for ever saying things against this holy place and against the law:

Driving him out of the town and stoning him: and the witnesses put their clothing at the feet of a young man named Saul.

And we are witnesses of all the things which he did in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem; whom they put to death, hanging him on a tree.

Not by all the people, but by witnesses marked out before by God, even by us, who took food and drink with him after he came back from the dead.

And for a number of days he was seen by those who came with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now his witnesses before the people.

Yes, and we are seen to be false witnesses of God; because we gave witness of God that by his power Christ came again from the dead: which is not true if there is no coming back from the dead.

This is the third time that I am coming to you. From the mouth of two or three witnesses will every word be made certain.

You are witnesses, with God, how holy and upright and free from all evil was our way of life among you who have faith;

And the things which I have said to you before a number of witnesses, give to those of the faith, so that they may be teachers of others.

A man who has gone against the law of Moses is put to death without pity on the word of two or three witnesses:

For this reason, as we are circled by so great a cloud of witnesses, putting off every weight, and the sin into which we come so readily, let us keep on running in the way which is marked out for us,

There are three witnesses, the Spirit, the water, and the blood: and all three are in agreement.

And I will give orders to my two witnesses, and they will be prophets for a thousand, two hundred and sixty days, clothed with haircloth.