'Witnesses' in the Bible

“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.

I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that you will quickly perish from the land you are about to cross the Jordan to possess. You will not live long there, but you will certainly be destroyed.

The one condemned to die is to be executed on the testimony of two or three witnesses. No one is to be executed on the testimony of a single witness.

The witnesses’ hands are to be the first in putting him to death, and after that, the hands of all the people. You must purge the evil from you.

“One witness cannot establish any wrongdoing or sin against a person, whatever that person has done. A fact must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.

I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Choose life so that you and your descendants may live,

Assemble all your tribal elders and officers before me so that I may speak these words directly to them and call heaven and earth as witnesses against them.

Joshua then told the people, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you yourselves have chosen to worship Yahweh.”“We are witnesses,” they said.

Boaz said to the elders and all the people, “You are witnesses today that I am buying from Naomi everything that belonged to Elimelech, Chilion, and Mahlon.

I will also acquire Ruth the Moabitess, Mahlon’s widow, as my wife, to perpetuate the deceased man’s name on his property, so that his name will not disappear among his relatives or from the gate of his home. You are witnesses today.”

The elders and all the people who were at the gate said, “We are witnesses. May the Lord make the woman who is entering your house like Rachel and Leah, who together built the house of Israel. May you be powerful in Ephrathah and famous in Bethlehem.

You produce new witnesses against meand multiply Your anger toward me.Hardships assault me, wave after wave.

Do not give me over to the will of my foes,for false witnesses rise up against me,breathing violence.

Malicious witnesses come forward;they question me about things I do not know.

I have appointed trustworthy witnesses—Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberechiah.”

All the nations are gathered together,and the peoples are assembled.Who among them can declare this,and tell us the former things?Let them present their witnessesto vindicate themselves,so that people may hear and say, “It is true.”

“You are My witnesses”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“and My servant whom I have chosen,so that you may know and believe Meand understand that I am He.No god was formed before Me,and there will be none after Me.

I alone declared, saved, and proclaimed—and not some foreign god among you.So you are My witnesses”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“and I am God.

Do not be startled or afraid.Have I not told you and declared it long ago?You are my witnesses!Is there any God but Me?There is no other Rock; I do not know any.

All who make idols are nothing,and what they treasure does not profit.Their witnesses do not see or know anything,so they will be put to shame.

Therefore listen, you nationsand you witnesses,learn what the charge is against them.

I recorded it on a scroll, sealed it, called in witnesses, and weighed out the silver in the scales.

and gave the purchase agreement to Baruch son of Neriah, son of Mahseiah. I did this in the sight of my cousin Hanamel, the witnesses who were signing the purchase agreement, and all the Judeans sitting in the guard’s courtyard.

Yet You, Lord God, have said to me: Buy the field with silver and call in witnesses—even though the city has been handed over to the Chaldeans!”

But if he won’t listen, take one or two more with you, so that by the testimony of two or three witnesses every fact may be established.

But they could not find any, even though many false witnesses came forward. Finally, two who came forward

Then the high priest tore his robes and said, “He has blasphemed! Why do we still need witnesses? Look, now you’ve heard the blasphemy!

Then the high priest tore his robes and said, “Why do we still need witnesses?

Therefore, you are witnesses that you approve the deeds of your fathers, for they killed them, and you build their monuments.

You are witnesses of these things.

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.

We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey Him.”

They also presented false witnesses who said, “This man does not stop speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.

They threw him out of the city and began to stone him. And the witnesses laid their robes at the feet of a young man named Saul.

We ourselves are witnesses of everything He did in both the Judean country and in Jerusalem, yet they killed Him by hanging Him on a tree.

not by all the people, but by us, witnesses appointed beforehand by God, who ate and drank with Him after He rose from the dead.

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

In addition, we are found to be false witnesses about God, because we have testified about God that He raised up Christ—whom He did not raise up if in fact the dead are not raised.

This is the third time I am coming to you. Every fact must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.

You are witnesses, and so is God, of how devoutly, righteously, and blamelessly we conducted ourselves with you believers.

Don’t accept an accusation against an elder unless it is supported by two or three witnesses.

Fight the good fight for the faith;take hold of eternal lifethat you were called toand have made a good confession aboutin the presence of many witnesses.

And what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses, commit to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.

If anyone disregards Moses’ law, he dies without mercy, based on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

Therefore, since we also have such a large cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us lay aside every weight and the sin that so easily ensnares us. Let us run with endurance the race that lies before us,

I will empower my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, dressed in sackcloth.”

Then I saw that the woman was drunk on the blood of the saints and on the blood of the witnesses to Jesus. When I saw her, I was greatly astonished.