Matthew 18:16 BSB — MannaFest

Matthew 18:16

But 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.’

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

But if he hear thee not, take with thee one or two more, that at the mouth of two witnesses or three every word may be established.

KJV

But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.

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Commentary

2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

2. Take with thee one or two more - Men whom he esteems, who may then confirm and enforce what thou sayest; and afterwards, if need require, bear witness of what was spoken. If even this do not succeed, then, and not before,

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Matthew (1856)

These words of the Lord Jesus contain an expression which has often been misapplied. The command to “hear the church” has been so interpreted as to contradict other passages of God’s Word. It has been falsely applied to the authority of the whole visible church in matters of doctrine, and so been made an excuse for the exercise of much ecclesiastical tyranny. But the abuse of Scripture truths must not tempt us to neglect the use of them. We must not turn away altogether from any text, because some have perverted it and made it poison.

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Original language & word study

21 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ἐὰν	ean	only	G1437 →
δὲ	de	however	G1161 →
μὴ	mē	unless	G3361 →
ἀκούσῃ,	akousē	he shall hear,	G191 →
παράλαβε	paralabe	do take	G3880 →
μετὰ	meta	with	G3326 →
σοῦ	sou	you	G4771 →
ἔτι	eti	more	G2089 →
ἕνα	hena	one	G1520 →
ἢ	ē	or	G2228 →
δύο	duo	two	G1417 →
ἵνα	ina	that	G2443 →
ἐπὶ	epi	upon	G1909 →
στόματος	stomatos	[the] testimony	G4750 →
δύο	duo	of two	G1417 →
μαρτύρων	marturōn	witnesses	G3144 →
ἢ	ē	or	G2228 →
τριῶν	triōn	of three	G5140 →
σταθῇ	stathēa	may be strengthened	G2476 →
πᾶν	pan	every	G3956 →
ῥῆμα.	rhēma	declaration.	G4487 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
2 Corinthians 13:1
This is the third time I am coming to you. “Every matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.”
leads to
- Deuteronomy 19:15
  A 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…
  Reached by 4 independent paths from here.
- Deuteronomy 17:6
  On 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.
  Reached by 4 independent paths from here.
- John 8:17–18
  Even in your own Law it is written that the testimony of two men is valid.
Through
Deuteronomy 19:15
A 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…
leads to
- 2 Corinthians 13:1
  This is the third time I am coming to you. “Every matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.”
  Reached by 4 independent paths from here.
- Hebrews 10:28
  Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
  Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
- Numbers 35:30
  If anyone kills a person, the murderer is to be put to death on the testimony of the witnesses. But no one is to be put to death based on the testimony of a…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- John 8:17
  Even in your own Law it is written that the testimony of two men is valid.
Through
Hebrews 10:28
Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
leads to
- Hebrews 2:2
  For if the message spoken by angels was binding, and every transgression and disobedience received its just punishment,