'Two' in the Bible
Then Herod, finding that the Magi had trifled with him, was furious, and sent and massacred all the boys under two years of age, in Bethlehem and all its neighbourhood, according to the date he had so carefully ascertained from the Magi.
And walking along the shore of the Lake of Galilee He saw two brothers--Simon called Peter and his brother Andrew--throwing a drag-net into the Lake; for they were fishers.
He saw two other brothers, James the son of Zabdi and his brother John, in the boat with their father Zabdi mending their nets; and He called them.
And whoever shall compel you to convey his goods one mile, go with him two.
"No man can be the bondservant of two masters; for either he will dislike one and like the other, or he will attach himself to one and think slightingly of the other. You cannot be the bondservants both of God and of gold.
On His arrival at the other side, in the country of the Gadarenes, there met Him two men possessed by demons, coming from among the tombs: they were so dangerously fierce that no one was able to pass that way.
As Jesus passed on, two blind men followed Him, shouting and saying, "Pity us, Son of David."
Do not two sparrows sell for a halfpenny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground without your Father's leave.
and He told all the people to sit down on the grass. Then He took the five loaves and the two fish, and after looking up to heaven and blessing them, He broke up the loaves and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples distributed them to the people.
If your hand or your foot is causing you to fall into sin, cut it off and away with it. It is better for you to enter into Life crippled in hand or foot than to remain in possession of two sound hands or feet but be thrown into the fire of the Ages.
And if your eye is causing you to fall into sin, tear it out and away with it; it is better for you to enter into Life with only one eye, than to remain in possession of two eyes but be thrown into the Gehenna of fire.
But if he will not listen to you, go again, and ask one or two to go with you, that every word spoken may be attested by two or three witnesses.
I also solemnly tell you that if two of you here on earth agree together concerning anything whatever that they shall ask, the boon will come to them from my Father who is in Heaven.
For where there are two or three assembled in my name, there am I in the midst of them."
and said, For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two shall be one'?
Thus they are no longer two, but 'one'! What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate."
"What is it you desire?" He asked. "Command," she replied, "that these my two sons may sit one at your right hand and one at your left in your Kingdom."
The other ten heard of this, and their indignation was aroused against the two brothers.
two blind men sitting by the roadside heard that it was Jesus who was passing by, and cried aloud, "Sir, Son of David, pity us."
When they were come near Jerusalem and had arrived at Bethphage and the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of the disciples on in front,
"But give me your judgement. There was a man who had two sons. He came to the elder of them, and said, "'My son, go and work in the vineyard to-day.'
Which of the two did as his father desired?" "The first," they said. "I solemnly tell you,' replied Jesus, "that the tax-gatherers and the notorious sinners are entering the Kingdom of God in front of you.
The whole of the Law and the Prophets is summed up in these two Commandments."
Then will two men be in the open country: one will be taken away, and one left behind.
Two women will be grinding at the mill: one will be taken away, and one left behind.
To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one--to each according to his individual capacity; and then started from home.
"The second, who had received the two talents, came and said, "'Sir, it was two talents you entrusted to me: see, I have gained two more.'
"You know that in two days' time the Passover comes. And the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified."
And He took with Him Peter and the two sons of Zabdi. Then He began to be full of anguish and distress,
but they could find none, although many false witnesses came forward. At length there came two
So when the Governor a second time asked them, "Which of the two shall I release to you?" --they cried, "Barabbas!"
At the same time two robbers were crucified with Him, one at His right hand and the other at His left.
Immediately the curtain of the Sanctuary was torn in two from top to bottom: the earth quaked; the rocks split;
"Sir," they said, "we recollect that during his lifetime that impostor pretended that after two days he was to rise to life again.