'Two' in the Bible

He also saw a poor widow dropping in two tiny coins.

“Lord,” they said, “look, here are two swords.”“Enough of that!” He told them.

Two others—criminals—were also led away to be executed with Him.

While they were perplexed about this, suddenly two men stood by them in dazzling clothes.

Now that same day two of them were on their way to a village called Emmaus, which was about seven miles from Jerusalem.

Again the next day, John was standing with two of his disciples.

The two disciples heard him say this and followed Jesus.

Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, was one of the two who heard John and followed Him.

Therefore, when the Samaritans came to Him, they asked Him to stay with them, and He stayed there two days.

After two days He left there for Galilee.

Philip answered, “Two hundred denarii worth of bread wouldn’t be enough for each of them to have a little.”

“There’s a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish—but what are they for so many?”

Even in your law it is written that the witness of two men is valid.

So when He heard that he was sick, He stayed two more days in the place where He was.

Bethany was near Jerusalem (about two miles away).

There they crucified Him and two others with Him, one on either side, with Jesus in the middle.

The two were running together, but the other disciple outran Peter and got to the tomb first.

She saw two angels in white sitting there, one at the head and one at the feet, where Jesus’ body had been lying.

Simon Peter, Thomas (called “Twin”), Nathanael from Cana of Galilee, Zebedee’s sons, and two others of His disciples were together.

While He was going, they were gazing into heaven, and suddenly two men in white clothes stood by them.

So they proposed two: Joseph, called Barsabbas, who was also known as Justus, and Matthias.

Then they prayed, “You, Lord, know the hearts of all; show which of these two You have chosen

“At this disclosure, Moses fled and became an exile in the land of Midian, where he fathered two sons.

Since Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples heard that Peter was there and sent two men to him who begged him, “Don’t delay in coming with us.”

When the angel who spoke to him had gone, he called two of his household slaves and a devout soldier, who was one of those who attended him.

On the night before Herod was to bring him out for execution, Peter, bound with two chains, was sleeping between two soldiers, while the sentries in front of the door guarded the prison.

And this went on for two years, so that all the inhabitants of Asia, both Jews and Greeks, heard the message about the Lord.

So after sending two of those who assisted him, Timothy and Erastus, to Macedonia, he himself stayed in Asia for a while.

But when they recognized that he was a Jew, a united cry went up from all of them for about two hours: “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”

Then the commander came up, took him into custody, and ordered him to be bound with two chains. He asked who he was and what he had done.

He summoned two of his centurions and said, “Get 200 soldiers ready with 70 cavalry and 200 spearmen to go to Caesarea at nine tonight.

After two years had passed, Felix received a successor, Porcius Festus, and because he wished to do a favor for the Jews, Felix left Paul in prison.

Then he stayed two whole years in his own rented house. And he welcomed all who visited him,

Don’t you know that anyone joined to a prostitute is one body with her? For Scripture says, The two will become one flesh.

If any person speaks in another language, there should be only two, or at the most three, each in turn, and someone must interpret.

Two or three prophets should speak, and the others should evaluate.

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

For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave and the other by a free woman.

These things are illustrations, for the women represent the two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai and bears children into slavery—this is Hagar.

He made of no effect the law consisting of commands and expressed in regulations, so that He might create in Himself one new man from the two, resulting in peace.

For this reason a man will leavehis father and motherand be joined to his wife,and the two will become one flesh.

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

so that through two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to seize the hope set before us.

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

They were stoned, they were sawed in two, they died by the sword, they wandered about in sheepskins, in goatskins, destitute, afflicted, and mistreated.

The first woe has passed. There are still two more woes to come after this.

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

These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth.

Those who live on the earth will gloat over them and celebrate and send gifts to one another because these two prophets brought judgment to those who live on the earth.

The woman was given two wings of a great eagle, so that she could fly from the serpent’s presence to her place in the wilderness, where she was fed for a time, times, and half a time.

Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth; he had two horns like a lamb, but he sounded like a dragon.