'Forward' in the Bible

Then they privately put forward men who declared, "We have heard him speak blasphemous things against Moses and against God."

Here they brought forward false witnesses who declared, "This fellow is incessantly speaking against the Holy Place and the Law.

Then some of the people crowded round Alexander, whom the Jews had pushed forward; and Alexander, motioning with his hand to get silence, was prepared to make a defence to the people.