Lexicon :: Strong's G3144 - martys

“But if he won’t listen, take one or two others with you, so that by the testimony[fn] of two or three witnesses every fact may be established.

Then the high priest tore his robes and said, “He has blasphemed! Why do we still need witnesses? See, now you’ve heard the blasphemy.

Then the high priest tore his robes and said, “Why do we still need witnesses?

“You are witnesses of these things.

“But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come on you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

“beginning from the baptism of John until the day he was taken up from us ​— ​from among these, it is necessary that one become a witness with us of his resurrection.”

“God has raised this Jesus; we are all witnesses of this.

“You killed the source[fn] of life, whom God raised from the dead; we are witnesses of this.

“We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey him.”

They also presented false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking against this holy place and the law.

They dragged him out of the city and began to stone him. And the witnesses laid their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.

“We ourselves are witnesses of everything he did in both the Judean country and in Jerusalem, and yet they killed him by hanging him on a tree.

“not by all the people, but by us whom God appointed as witnesses, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.

“and he appeared for many days to those who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now his witnesses to the people.

“since you will be a witness for him to all people of what you have seen and heard.

“And when the blood of your witness Stephen was being shed, I stood there giving approval[fn] and guarding the clothes of those who killed him.’

“But get up and stand on your feet. For I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you as a servant and a witness of what you have seen and will see of me.

God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in telling the good news about his Son ​— ​that I constantly mention you,

I call on God as a witness, on my life, that it was to spare you that I did not come to Corinth.

This is the third time I am coming to you. Every matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.

For God is my witness, how deeply I miss all of you with the affection of Christ Jesus.

For we never used flattering speech, as you know, or had greedy motives ​— ​God is our witness ​— ​

You are witnesses, and so is God, of how devoutly, righteously, and blamelessly we conducted ourselves with you believers.

Don’t accept an accusation against an elder unless it is supported by two or three witnesses.

Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of eternal life to which you were called and about which you have made a good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

What you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses, commit to faithful men[fn] who will be able to teach others also.

Anyone who disregarded the law of Moses died without mercy, based on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

Therefore, since we also have such a large cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us lay aside every hindrance and the sin that so easily ensnares us. Let us run with endurance the race that lies before us,

I exhort the elders among you as a fellow elder and witness to the sufferings of Christ, as well as one who shares in the glory about to be revealed:

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead and the ruler of the kings of the earth.

To him who loves us and has set us free[fn] from our sins by his blood,

“I know[fn] where you live ​— ​where Satan’s throne is. Yet you are holding on to my name and did not deny your faith in me,[fn] even in the days of Antipas, my faithful witness who was put to death among you, where Satan lives.

“Write to the angel of the church in Laodicea: Thus says the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the originator[fn] of God’s creation:

“I will grant[fn] my two witnesses authority to prophesy for 1,260 days, dressed in sackcloth.”

Then I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the witnesses to Jesus. When I saw her, I was greatly astonished.