¹⁷ Your own law says that if two people agree about something, their witness is accepted as fact.^[a]

¹⁵ “You must not convict anyone of a crime on the testimony of only one witness. The facts of the case must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.

⁶ But never put a person to death on the testimony of only one witness. There must always be two or three witnesses.

¹⁶ But if you are unsuccessful, take one or two others with you and go back again, so that everything you say may be confirmed by two or three witnesses.

²⁸ For anyone who refused to obey the law of Moses was put to death without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

²⁴ Let me put it another way. The law was our guardian until Christ came; it protected us until we could be made right with God through faith.

Paul’s Final Advice

13 This is the third time I am coming to visit you (and as the Scriptures say, “The facts of every case must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses”^[a]).

³ And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will be clothed in burlap and will prophesy during those 1,260 days.”

Abraham’s Two Children

²¹ Tell me, you who want to live under the law, do you know what the law actually says?

⁹ Since we believe human testimony, surely we can believe the greater testimony that comes from God. And God has testified about his Son.