Deuteronomy 17:6

17:6 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.

Deuteronomy 19:15

19:15 A single witness may not testify ¹  against another person for any trespass or sin that he commits. A matter may be legally established ²  only on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

Deuteronomy 19:18-19

19:18 The judges will thoroughly investigate the matter, and if the witness should prove to be false and to have given false testimony against the accused, ³  19:19 you must do to him what he had intended to do to the accused. In this way you will purge ⁴  evil from among you.

Matthew 18:16

18:16 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. ⁵ 

John 8:17

8:17 It is written in your law that the testimony of two men is true. ⁶ 

John 8:2

8:2 Early in the morning he came to the temple courts again. All the people came to him, and he sat down and began to teach ⁷  them.

Colossians 1:1

Salutation

1:1 From Paul, ⁸  an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,

Hebrews 10:28

10:28 Someone who rejected the law of Moses was put to death ⁹  without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. ¹⁰ 

[19:15]  ¹ tn Heb “rise up” (likewise in v. 16).

[19:15]  ² tn Heb “may stand.”

[19:18]  ³ tn Heb “his brother” (also in the following verse).

[19:19]  ⁴ tn Heb “you will burn out” (בִּעַרְתָּ, bi’arta). Like a cancer, unavenged sin would infect the whole community. It must, therefore, be excised by the purging out of its perpetrators who, presumably, remained unrepentant (cf. Deut 13:6; 17:7, 12; 21:21; 22:21-22, 24; 24:7).

[18:16]  ⁵ sn A quotation from Deut 19:15.

[8:17]  ⁶ sn An allusion to Deut 17:6.

[8:2]  ⁷ tn An ingressive sense for the imperfect fits well here following the aorist participle.

[1:1]  ⁸ tn Grk “Paul.” The word “from” is not in the Greek text, but has been supplied to indicate the sender of the letter.

[10:28]  ⁹ tn Grk “dies.”

[10:28]  ¹⁰ sn An allusion to Deut 17:6.