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It`s also written in your law that the testimony of two men is valid.
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Using Their Own Law
Commentators explain that Jesus is making a brilliant legal argument. By referencing the Old Testament requirement for two witnesses (Deuteronomy 17:6, 19:15), He is using the very law his accusers claimed to uphold. He essentially tells them, "By your own standards, my testimony is valid," preparing to name His second witness in the next verse.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
In your law. Deuteronomy 17:6; Deuteronomy 19:15. Compare to Matthew 18:16. This related to cases in which the life …
Yea and in your law (κα εν τω νομω δε τω υμετερω). Same use of και--δε as in verse 16. They claimed possession of the law (7:49) a…
19th Century
Anglican
It is also written in your law.—He now proceeds to show again that the technical requirement of the Law was satisfied by …
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Baptist
Then again the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. He said to them, He put clay upon my eyes, and I washed, and I see. Ther…
Jesus argued further that the Pharisees were not qualified to render a verdict on the validity of his witness because they were using the wrong cri…
16th Century
Protestant
Even in your law it is written. The argument might, at first glance, appear to be weak, because no one is accepted as a witness in their o…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
It is also written in your law The law of Moses, which was given to them, and they boasted of; the passage referred …
If we knew Christ better, we would know the Father better. Those who will not learn from Christ become vain in their imaginations concerning God. T…
13th Century
Catholic
The Evangelist has presented Christ as teaching; now he shows two things. First, he shows the power this teaching has to give light. Seco…
