The Law Concerning Witnesses

^15 (A)“One witness shall not rise against a man concerning any iniquity or any sin that he commits; by the mouth of two or three witnesses the matter shall be established.

Coming with Authority

13 This will be ^(A)the third time I am coming to you. ^(B)“By the mouth of two or three witnesses every word shall be established.”

⁶ Whoever is deserving of death shall be put to death on the testimony of two or three ^(A)witnesses; he shall not be put to death on the testimony of one witness.

³⁰ Whoever kills a person, the murderer shall be put to death on the ^(A)testimony of witnesses; but one witness is not sufficient testimony against a person for the death penalty.

²⁸ Anyone who has rejected Moses’ law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three ^(A)witnesses.

¹⁶ But if he will not hear, take with you one or two more, that ^(A)‘by the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.’

¹⁹ Do not receive an accusation against an elder except ^(A)from two or three witnesses.

^17 (A)It is also written in your law that the testimony of two men is true.

^60 [a]but found none. Even though ^(A)many false witnesses came forward, they found none. But at last ^(B)two ^[b]false witnesses came forward ⁶¹ and said, “This fellow said, ^(C)‘I am able to destroy the temple of God and to build it in three days.’ ”

¹³ And two men, scoundrels, came in and sat before him; and the scoundrels ^(A)witnessed against him, against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth has blasphemed God and the king!” ^(B)Then they took him outside the city and stoned him with stones, so that he died.