Even in your own Law it is written that the testimony of two men is valid.It’s also written in your law that the testimony of two people is valid.It is also written in your law, that the testimony of two men is true.Yea and in your law it is written, that the witness of two men is true.
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… Either I surrender or I fight. Now, that's the way we find Jesus in this crowd that surrounded him in John chapter 8, verses 12 to 59. He is not around a crowd that had never heard of God. I want to make that clear. He is in a context of religion. As a matter of fact, one of the three great festivals of the year is where he was at the time he spoke the words of John 8, the Feast of Tabernacles. Remember the other time that he brought a sword? He said, Are any of you thirsty? Come to me and drink. They were pouring out the water from that sacred vessel on that sacred altar, and he said, Wait a minute! Let me tell you where real water is. It's in me, and you come to me, you'll never thirst again. Oh, that was a sword. And it started an argument that still hasn't ceased. Now, he comes to this place called the treasury, according to verse 20 of chapter 8. …
… who sent me. And it is also written in your law that the testimony of two men is true. I am the one who bears witness of myself, and the Father who sent me bears witness of me." And they said, well, where is your Father? Jesus said, you don't know neither me nor my Father. If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. Now do you see what's going on here is that according to Jewish law, when testimony is given and claims are made for it to be legal, it has to be corroborated by another source. You have to have the agreement of at least two witnesses. And here Jesus is saying, I am the light of the world. The Pharisee says, oh, no, you're not. Who do you think you are to make a claim like that just by yourself? else is backing it up, nobody else is corroborating it, or verifying this stupendous claim that you are making. And Jesus says, I don't have to have any corroboration because I know who I am. …
… And yet if I do judge, my judgment is true, for I am not alone, but I am with the Father who sent me. And it is also written in your law that the testimony of two men is true. I am one who bears witness of myself, and the Father who sent me bears witness of me. And then they said to him, Where is your father? Jesus answered, You know neither me nor my father. If you had known me, you would have known my father also. These words spoke Jesus in the treasury as he taught in the temple, and no one laid hands on him, for his hour had not yet come. And then Jesus said to them again, I'm going away, and you will seek me and will die in your sin. Where I go, you cannot come. So the Jews said, will he kill himself because he says, where I go, you cannot come? And he said to them, you are from beneath. I am from above. …