Deuteronomy 17:6
Context17:6 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
Context19:15 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
Context19:18 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
Context18:16 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
Context8:17 It is written in your law that the testimony of two men is true. 6
John 8:2
Context8:2 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
Context1:1 From Paul, 8 an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,
Hebrews 10:28
Context10:28 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).
[19:18] 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.