What
is a witness?
Dictionary
attestation
of a fact or event.
one
that gives evidence; specifically.
one
who testifies in a cause or before a judicial tribunal. one asked to be present
at a transaction so as to be able to testify to its having taken place.
one
who has personal knowledge of something. something serving as evidence or
proof. public affirmation by word or
example of usually religious faith or conviction.
We are witnesses to the rising of the Prince of Life.
The Lord our God wants us to be good witnesses as an example to others about Him.
Acts 26;16
But get up and stand on your feet; for this purpose I have appeared to you, to appoint you a minister and a witness not only to the things which you have seen, but also to the things in which I will appear to you.
Psalm
66;16
Come!
Listen, all you who are loyal to God! I will declare what he has done for me.
Exodus
23;1
[ Justice
] “You must not give a false report. Do not make common cause with the wicked
to be a malicious witness.
Leviticus
5;1
“‘When a person sins in that he hears a public
curse against one who fails to testify and he is a witness (he
either saw or knew what had happened) and he does not make it known, then he
will bear his punishment for iniquity.
Proverbs
30;5
“Every
word of God is flawless; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him.”
Deuteronomy
4;26
I
invoke heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that you
will surely and swiftly be removed from the very land you are about to cross
the Jordan to possess. You will not last long there because you will surely be
annihilated.
Deuteronomy
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.
Deuteronomy
19;14
[ Laws
Concerning Witnesses ] You must not encroach on your
neighbor’s property, which will have been defined in the inheritance you will
obtain in the land the Lord your God is giving you.
Witness
of the scriptures
John
5;39-47
39 You search the Scriptures
because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify
about Me; 40 and you are unwilling to come to Me so that you may
have life. 41 I do not receive glory from men; 42 but I
know you, that you do not have the love of God in yourselves. 43 I
have come in My Father’s name, and you do not receive Me; if another comes in his
own name, you will receive him. 44 How can you believe, when you
receive glory from one another and you do not seek the glory that is from the one
and only God? 45 Do not think that I will accuse you before the
Father; the one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have set your hope. 46 For
if you believed Moses, you would believe Me, for he wrote about Me. 47 But
if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?”
Acts
1;8
"but
you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be
My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even
to the remotest part of the earth.”
Acts
1;22
"beginning
with the baptism of John until the day that He was taken up from us—one of
these must become a witness with us of His resurrection.”
Acts
2;32
This
Jesus God raised up again, to which we are all witnesses.
Acts
3;15
but
put to death the Prince of life, the one whom God raised from the dead, a
fact to which we are witnesses.
Acts
532
And
we are witnesses of these things; and so is the Holy Spirit, whom
God has given to those who obey Him.”
Acts
6;13
They
put forward false witnesses who said, “This man incessantly speaks
against this holy place and the Law.
Acts
7;58
When
they had driven him out of the city, they began stoning him; and
the witnesses laid aside their robes at the feet of a young man named
Saul.
Acts
10;39
We
are witnesses of all the things He did both in the land of the Jews and
in Jerusalem. They also put Him to death by hanging Him on a cross.
Acts
10;41
not
to all the people, but to witnesses who were chosen beforehand by God, that
is, to us who ate and drank with Him after He arose from the dead.
Acts
10;43
Of
Him all the prophets bear witness that through His name everyone who
believes in Him receives forgiveness of sins.”
Acts
11;23
Then
when he arrived and witnessed the grace of God, he rejoiced and began
to encourage them all with resolute heart to remain true to the Lord.
Acts
13;31
and
for many days He appeared to those who came up with Him from Galilee to
Jerusalem, the very ones who are now His witnesses to the people.
Acts
14;17
"and
yet He did not leave Himself without witness, in that He did good and
gave you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying your hearts with
food and gladness.”
Acts
22;15
For
you will be a witness for Him to all men of what you have seen and
heard.
Acts
22;20
And
when the blood of Your witness Stephen was being shed, I also was
standing by approving, and watching out for the coats of those who were slaying
him.
Acts
23;11
But
on the night immediately following, the Lord stood at his side and said,
“Take courage; for as you have solemnly witnessed to My cause at
Jerusalem, so you must witness at Rome also.”
Acts
26;16
But
get up and stand on your feet; for this purpose I have appeared to you, to
appoint you a minister and a witness not only to the things which you
have seen, but also to the things in which I will appear to you.
Romans
1;9
For
God, whom I serve in my spirit in the preaching of the gospel of His
Son, is my witness as to how unceasingly I make mention of you.
Romans
2;15
in
that they show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience
bearing witness and their thoughts alternately accusing or else
defending them.
Romans
3;21
[ Justification
by Faith ] But now apart from the Law the righteousness of God has
been manifested, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets.
1
Timothy 5;19
Do
not receive an accusation against an elder except on the basis of two or three witnesses.
1
Timothy 6;12
Fight
the good fight of faith; take hold of the eternal life to which you were
called, and you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.
Hebrews
7;8
In
this case mortal men receive tithes, but in that case one receives them,
of whom it is witnessed that he lives on.
Hebrews
10;28
Anyone
who has set aside the Law of Moses dies without mercy on the testimony of
two or three witnesses.
Hebrews
11;5
By
faith Enoch was taken up so that he would not see death; and he was not found
because God took him up; for he obtained the witness that before his
being taken up he was pleasing to God.
Hebrews
12;1
[ Jesus,
the Example ] Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses
surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so
easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before
us.
James
5;3
Your
gold and your silver have rusted; and their rust will be a witness
against you and will consume your flesh like fire. It is in the last days that
you have stored up your treasure!
1
Peter 5;1
Therefore, I exhort the elders among you, as your
fellow elder and witness of the sufferings of Christ, and a partaker
also of the glory that is to be revealed.
Revelation
11;3
And
I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will
prophesy for twelve hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.”