John 7:51

Modern English Version

“Does our law judge a man before it hears him and knows what he is doing?”

Cross References

Exodus 23:1

You must not give a false report. Do not join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.

Proverbs 18:13

He who answers a matter before he hears it, it is folly and shame to him.

Numbers 35:30

Whoever kills a person, the murderer will be put to death by the testimony of witnesses, but one witness will not testify against a person for death.

Acts 23:3

Then Paul said to him, “God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! Do you sit judging me according to the law, yet order me to be struck contrary to the law?”

Deuteronomy 1:17

You shall not show partiality in judgment, but you shall hear the small as well as the great. You shall not be afraid in any man’s presence, for the judgment is God’s. The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring it to me, and I will hear it.”

Deuteronomy 17:6

On the testimony of two or three witnesses he that is to die must be put to death, but on the testimony of one witness he cannot be put to death.