John 7:51

New American Bible - revised edition

“Does our law condemn a person before it first hears him and finds out what he is doing?”

Cross References

Exodus 23:1

You shall not repeat a false report. Do not join your hand with the wicked to be a witness supporting violence.

Proverbs 18:13

Whoever answers before listening, theirs is folly and shame.

Numbers 35:30

Whenever someone kills another, the evidence of witnesses is required to kill the murderer. A single witness does not suffice for putting a person to death. No Indemnity.

Acts 23:3

Then Paul said to him, “God will strike you, you whitewashed wall. Do you indeed sit in judgment upon me according to the law and yet in violation of the law order me to be struck?”

Deuteronomy 1:17

In rendering judgment, do not consider who a person is; give ear to the lowly and to the great alike, fearing no one, for the judgment is God’s. Any case that is too difficult for you bring to me and I will hear it.”

Deuteronomy 17:6

Only on the testimony of two or three witnesses shall a person be put to death; no one shall be put to death on the testimony of only one witness.