Bilangan 35:30

35:30 “Whoever kills any person, the murderer must be put to death by the testimony ¹  of witnesses; but one witness cannot ²  testify against any person to cause him to be put to death.

Ulangan 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.

Ulangan 19:15

19:15 A single witness may not testify ³  against another person for any trespass or sin that he commits. A matter may be legally established ⁴  only on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

Ulangan 19:1

Laws Concerning Manslaughter

19:1 When the Lord your God destroys the nations whose land he ⁵  is about to give you and you dispossess them and settle in their cities and houses,

Kisah Para Rasul 21:10

21:10 While we remained there for a number of days, ⁶  a prophet named Agabus ⁷  came down from Judea.

Kisah Para Rasul 21:13

21:13 Then Paul replied, “What are you doing, weeping and breaking ⁸  my heart? For I am ready not only to be tied up, ⁹  but even to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”

Matius 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. ¹⁰ 

Matius 26:60-61

26:60 But they did not find anything, though many false witnesses came forward. Finally ¹¹  two came forward 26:61 and declared, “This man ¹²  said, ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God and rebuild it in three days.’”

Yohanes 8:17-18

8:17 It is written in your law that the testimony of two men is true. ¹³  8:18 I testify about myself ¹⁴  and the Father who sent me testifies about me.”

Ibrani 10:28-29

10:28 Someone who rejected the law of Moses was put to death ¹⁵  without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. ¹⁶  10:29 How much greater punishment do you think that person deserves who has contempt for ¹⁷  the Son of God, and profanes ¹⁸  the blood of the covenant that made him holy, ¹⁹  and insults the Spirit of grace?

[35:30]  ¹ tn Heb “ at the mouth of”; the metonymy stresses it is at their report.

[35:30]  ² tn The verb should be given the nuance of imperfect of potentiality.

[19:15]  ³ tn Heb “rise up” (likewise in v. 16).

[19:15]  ⁴ tn Heb “may stand.”

[19:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

[21:10]  ⁶ tn BDAG 848 s.v. πολύς 1.b.α has “ἐπὶ ἡμέρας πλείους for a (large) number of days, for many days…Ac 13:31. – 21:10…24:17; 25:14; 27:20.”

[21:10]  ⁷ sn Agabus also appeared in Acts 11:28. He was from Jerusalem, so the two churches were still in contact with one another.

[21:13]  ⁸ tn The term translated “breaking” as used by Josephus (Ant. 10.10.4 [10.207]) means to break something into pieces, but in its only NT use (it is a hapax legomenon) it is used figuratively (BDAG 972 s.v. συνθρύπτω).

[21:13]  ⁹ tn L&N 18.13 has “to tie objects together – ‘to tie, to tie together, to tie up.’” The verb δέω (dew) is sometimes figurative for imprisonment (L&N 37.114), but it is preferable to translate it literally here in light of v. 11 where Agabus tied himself up with Paul’s belt.

[18:16]  ¹⁰ sn A quotation from Deut 19:15.

[26:60]  ¹¹ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[26:61]  ¹² tn Grk “This one.”

[8:17]  ¹³ sn An allusion to Deut 17:6.

[8:18]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “I am the one who testifies about myself.”

[10:28]  ¹⁵ tn Grk “dies.”

[10:28]  ¹⁶ sn An allusion to Deut 17:6.

[10:29]  ¹⁷ tn Grk “tramples under foot.”

[10:29]  ¹⁸ tn Grk “regarded as common.”

[10:29]  ¹⁹ tn Grk “by which he was made holy.”