'Witnesses' in the Bible

"Whoever kills any person, the murderer must be put to death by the testimony of witnesses; but one witness cannot testify against any person to cause him to be put to death.

I invoke heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that you will surely and swiftly be removed from the very land you are about to cross the Jordan to possess. You will not last long there because you will surely be annihilated.

At the testimony of two or three witnesses they must be executed. They cannot be put to death on the testimony of only one witness.

The witnesses must be first to begin the execution, and then all the people are to join in afterward. In this way you will purge evil from among you.

A single witness may not testify against another person for any trespass or sin that he commits. A matter may be legally established only on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

Joshua said to the people, "Do you agree to be witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen to worship the Lord?" They replied, "We are witnesses!"

Then Boaz said to the leaders and all the people, "You are witnesses today that I have acquired from Naomi all that belonged to Elimelech, Kilion, and Mahlon.

I have also acquired Ruth the Moabite, the wife of Mahlon, as my wife to raise up a descendant who will inherit his property so the name of the deceased might not disappear from among his relatives and from his village. You are witnesses today."

All the people who were at the gate and the elders replied, "We are witnesses. May the Lord make the woman who is entering your home like Rachel and Leah, both of whom built up the house of Israel! May you prosper in Ephrathah and become famous in Bethlehem.

You bring new witnesses against me, and increase your anger against me; relief troops come against me.

Do not turn me over to my enemies, for false witnesses who want to destroy me testify against me.

Then I will summon as my reliable witnesses Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberekiah."

Highways are empty, there are no travelers. Treaties are broken, witnesses are despised, human life is treated with disrespect.

All nations gather together, the peoples assemble. Who among them announced this? Who predicted earlier events for us? Let them produce their witnesses to testify they were right; let them listen and affirm, 'It is true.'

You are my witnesses," says the Lord, "my servant whom I have chosen, so that you may consider and believe in me, and understand that I am he. No god was formed before me, and none will outlive me.

I decreed and delivered and proclaimed, and there was no other god among you. You are my witnesses," says the Lord, "that I am God.

Don't panic! Don't be afraid! Did I not tell you beforehand and decree it? You are my witnesses! Is there any God but me? There is no other sheltering rock; I know of none.

All who form idols are nothing; the things in which they delight are worthless. Their witnesses cannot see; they recognize nothing, so they are put to shame.

So the Lord said, "Hear, you nations! Be witnesses and take note of what will happen to these people.

I signed the deed of purchase, sealed it, and had some men serve as witnesses to the purchase. I weighed out the silver for him on a scale.

I took both copies of the deed of purchase and gave them to Baruch son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah. I gave them to him in the presence of my cousin Hanamel, the witnesses who had signed the deed of purchase, and all the Judeans who were housed in the courtyard of the guardhouse.

But if he does not listen, take one or two others with you, so that at the testimony of two or three witnesses every matter may be established.

But they did not find anything, though many false witnesses came forward. Finally two came forward

Then the high priest tore his clothes and declared, "He has blasphemed! Why do we still need witnesses? Now you have heard the blasphemy!

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

This will be a time for you to serve as witnesses.

You are witnesses of these things.

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the farthest parts of the earth."

This Jesus God raised up, and we are all witnesses of it.

You killed the Originator of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this fact we are witnesses!

And we are witnesses of these events, and so is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey him."

They brought forward false witnesses who said, "This man does not stop saying things against this holy place and the law.

When they had driven him out of the city, they began to stone him, and the witnesses laid their cloaks at the feet of a young man named Saul.

We are witnesses of all the things he did both in Judea and in Jerusalem. They killed him by hanging him on a tree,

not by all the people, but by us, the witnesses God had already chosen, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.

and for many days he appeared to those who had accompanied him from Galilee to Jerusalem. These are now his witnesses to the people.

Also, we are found to be false witnesses about God, because we have testified against God that he raised Christ from the dead, when in reality he did not raise him, if indeed the dead are not raised.

This is the third time I am coming to visit you. By the testimony of two or three witnesses every matter will be established.

You are witnesses, and so is God, as to how holy and righteous and blameless our conduct was toward you who believe.

Do not accept an accusation against an elder unless it can be confirmed by two or three witnesses.

Compete well for the faith and lay hold of that eternal life you were called for and made your good confession for in the presence of many witnesses.

And entrust what you heard me say in the presence of many others as witnesses to faithful people who will be competent to teach others as well.

And the Holy Spirit also witnesses to us, for after saying,

Someone who rejected the law of Moses was put to death without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, we must get rid of every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and run with endurance the race set out for us,

And I will grant my two witnesses authority to prophesy for 1,260 days, dressed in sackcloth.