John 8:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Even in your law it is said that the witness of two men is true.

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  • Matt 18:16 : 16 But if he will not give ear to you, take with you one or two more, that by the lips of two or three witnesses every word may be made certain.
  • Deut 19:15 : 15 One witness may not make a statement against a man in relation to any sin or wrongdoing which he has done: on the word of two or three witnesses a question is to be judged.
  • Deut 17:6 : 6 On the word of two or three witnesses, a man may be given the punishment of death; but he is not to be put to death on the word of one witness.
  • Gal 3:24 : 24 So the law has been a servant to take us to Christ, so that we might have righteousness by faith.
  • Gal 4:21 : 21 Say, you whose desire it is to be under the law, do you not give ear to the law?
  • Heb 10:28 : 28 A man who has gone against the law of Moses is put to death without pity on the word of two or three witnesses:
  • 1 John 5:9 : 9 If we take the witness of men to be true, the witness of God is greater: because this is the witness which God has given about his Son.
  • Rev 11:3 : 3 And I will give orders to my two witnesses, and they will be prophets for a thousand, two hundred and sixty days, clothed with haircloth.
  • John 10:34 : 34 In answer, Jesus said, Is there not a saying in your law, I said, You are gods?
  • John 15:25 : 25 This comes about so that the writing in their law may be made true, Their hate for me was without cause.
  • 2 Cor 13:1 : 1 This is the third time that I am coming to you. From the mouth of two or three witnesses will every word be made certain.
  • 1 Kgs 21:10 : 10 And get two good-for-nothing persons to come before him and give witness that he has been cursing God and the king. Then take him out and have him stoned to death.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • John 8:18-19
    2 verses
    83%

    18 I give witness about myself and the Father who sent me gives witness about me.

    19 Then they said to him, Where is your Father? Jesus said in answer, You have no knowledge of me or of my Father: if you had knowledge of me you would have knowledge of my Father.

  • John 8:13-16
    4 verses
    82%

    13 So the Pharisees said to him, The witness you give is about yourself: your witness is not true.

    14 Jesus said in answer, Even if I give witness about myself, my witness is true, because I have knowledge of where I came from and where I am going; but you have no knowledge of where I come from or of where I am going.

    15 You are judging from what you see; I am judging no man.

    16 Even if I am judging, my decision is right, because I am not by myself--with me is the Father who sent me.

  • John 5:31-34
    4 verses
    80%

    31 If I gave witness about myself, my witness would not be true.

    32 There is another who gives witness about me and I am certain that the witness he gives about me is true.

    33 You sent to John and he gave true witness.

    34 But I have no need of a man's witness: I only say these things so that you may have salvation.

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    15 One witness may not make a statement against a man in relation to any sin or wrongdoing which he has done: on the word of two or three witnesses a question is to be judged.

    16 If a false witness makes a statement against a man, saying that he has done wrong,

    17 Then the two men, between whom the argument has taken place, are to come before the Lord, before the priests and judges who are then in power;

    18 And the judges will have the question looked into with care: and if the witness is seen to be false and to have made a false statement against his brother,

  • 1 John 5:7-9
    3 verses
    72%

    7 And the Spirit is the witness, because the Spirit is true.

    8 There are three witnesses, the Spirit, the water, and the blood: and all three are in agreement.

    9 If we take the witness of men to be true, the witness of God is greater: because this is the witness which God has given about his Son.

  • 12 Demetrius has the approval of all men and of what is true: and we give the same witness, and you are certain that our witness is true.

  • 16 But if he will not give ear to you, take with you one or two more, that by the lips of two or three witnesses every word may be made certain.

  • 26 I have much to say about you and against you: but he who sent me is true and what he has said to me I say to the world.

  • John 5:36-39
    4 verses
    70%

    36 But the witness which I have is greater than that of John: the work which the Father has given me to do, the very work which I am now doing, is a witness that the Father has sent me.

    37 And the Father himself who sent me has given witness about me. Not one of you has ever given ear to his voice; his form you have not seen.

    38 And you have not kept his word in your hearts, because you have not faith in him whom he has sent.

    39 You make search in the holy Writings, in the belief that through them you get eternal life; and it is those Writings which give witness about me.

  • 6 On the word of two or three witnesses, a man may be given the punishment of death; but he is not to be put to death on the word of one witness.

  • John 3:32-33
    2 verses
    70%

    32 He gives witness of what he has seen and of what has come to his ears; and no man takes his witness as true.

    33 He who so takes his witness has made clear his faith that God is true.

  • 1 This is the third time that I am coming to you. From the mouth of two or three witnesses will every word be made certain.

  • 70%

    26 When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father even the Spirit of true knowledge who comes from the Father--he will give witness about me;

    27 And you, in addition, will give witness because you have been with me from the first.

  • 11 Truly, I say to you, We say that of which we have knowledge; we give witness of what we have seen; and you do not take our witness to be true.

  • 35 And he who saw it has given witness (and his witness is true; he is certain that what he says is true) so that you may have belief.

  • 38 I say the things which I have seen in my Father's house: and you do the things which come to you from your father's house.

  • John 8:45-46
    2 verses
    68%

    45 But because I say what is true, you have no belief in me.

    46 Which of you is able truly to say that I am a sinner? If I say what is true, why have you no belief in me?

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    56 For a number gave false witness against him and their witness was not in agreement.

    57 Then some got up and gave false witness against him, saying,

  • 55 You have no knowledge of him, but I have knowledge of him; and if I said I have no knowledge of him I would be talking falsely like you: but I have full knowledge of him, and I keep his word.

  • 17 Make them holy by the true word: your word is the true word.

  • 24 This is the disciple who gives witness about these things and who put them in writing: and we have knowledge that his witness is true.

  • 11 Have faith that I am in the Father and that the Father is in me: at least, have faith in me because of what I do.

  • 17 Now the people who were with him when his voice came to Lazarus in the place of the dead, and gave him life again, had been talking about it.

  • 15 And the Holy Spirit is a witness for us: for after he had said,

  • 71 And they said, What more need have we of witness? we have the very words of his mouth.

  • 30 I and my Father are one.

  • 34 This I saw myself and my witness is that he is the Son of God.

  • 40 But now you have a desire to put me to death, a man who has said to you what is true, as I had it from God: Abraham did not do that.

  • 47 If you have no belief in his writings, how will you have belief in my words?

  • 19 Do not take as true any statement made against one in authority, but only if two or three give witness to it.

  • 28 You yourselves give witness that I said, I am not the Christ. What I said was, I am sent before the Christ.