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John 8:17
John 8:17 is verse 17 of John chapter 8, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Even in your own Law it is written that the testimony of two men is valid.
See Deuteronomy 19:15.
King James Version
It is also written in your law, that the testimony of two men is true.
World English Bible
It’s also written in your law that the testimony of two people is valid.
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John 8:15–19 · Berean Standard Bible
15 You judge according to the flesh; I judge no one.
16 But even if I do judge, My judgment is true, because I am not alone; I am with the Father who sent Me.
17 Even in your own Law it is written that the testimony of two men is valid.
18 I am One who testifies about Myself, and the Father, who sent Me, also testifies about Me.”
19 “Where is Your Father?” they asked Him. “You do not know Me or My Father,” Jesus answered. “If you knew Me, you would know My Father as well.”
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
John 10:34Jesus replied, “Is it not written in your Law: ‘I have said you are gods’?
John 15:25But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated Me without reason.’
Galatians 3:24So the law became our guardian to lead us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
Galatians 4:21Tell me, you who want to be under the law, do you not understand what the law says?
Deuteronomy 17:6On the testimony of two or three witnesses a man shall be put to death, but he shall not be executed on the testimony of a lone witness.
Deuteronomy 19:15A lone witness is not sufficient to establish any wrongdoing or sin against a man, regardless of what offense he may have committed. A matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.
1 Kings 21:10But seat two scoundrels opposite him and have them testify, ‘You have cursed both God and the king!’ Then take him out and stone him to death.”
Matthew 18:16But if he will not listen, take one or two others along, so that ‘every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.’
2 Corinthians 13:1This is the third time I am coming to you. “Every matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.”
Hebrews 10:28Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
1 John 5:9Even if we accept human testimony, the testimony of God is greater. For this is the testimony that God has given about His Son.
Revelation 11:3And I will empower my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.”