Courts of Justice

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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• Ruth 4:2 OT

  Boaz took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, “Sit down here,” and they sat down.

• 2 Chronicles 19:5-10 OT

  He set judges in the land throughout all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city, and said to the judges, “Consider what you do, for you don’t judge for man, but for Yahweh; and he is with you in the judgment. Now therefore let the…

• Ezra 7:25 OT

  You, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God that is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges, who may judge all the people who are beyond the River, who all know the laws of your God; and teach him who doesn’t know them.

• Exodus 24:9 OT

  Then Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up.

• Numbers 11:16 OT

  Yahweh said to Moses, “Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them; and bring them to the Tent of Meeting, that they may stand there with you.

• Numbers 11:17 OT

  I will come down and talk with you there. I will take of the Spirit which is on you, and will put it on them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you don’t bear it yourself alone.

• Numbers 11:24-30 OT

  Moses went out, and told the people Yahweh’s words; and he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them around the Tent. Yahweh came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the Spirit that was on him, and put it…

• Luke 22:66 NT

  As soon as it was day, the assembly of the elders of the people were gathered together, both chief priests and scribes, and they led him away into their council, saying,

• John 11:47 NT

  The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, “What are we doing? For this man does many signs.

• Acts 5:27 NT

  When they had brought them, they set them before the council. The high priest questioned them,

• Matthew 26:57 NT

  Those who had taken Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were gathered together.

• Matthew 26:59 NT

  Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, that they might put him to death;

• Matthew 26:62-66 NT

  The high priest stood up, and said to him, “Have you no answer? What is this that these testify against you?” But Jesus held his peace. The high priest answered him, “I adjure you by the living God, that you tell us whether you are the…

• Matthew 26:58 NT

  But Peter followed him from a distance, to the court of the high priest, and entered in and sat with the officers, to see the end.

• Matthew 27:2 NT

  and they bound him, and led him away, and delivered him up to Pontius Pilate, the governor.

• Matthew 27:11 NT

  Now Jesus stood before the governor: and the governor asked him, saying, “Are you the King of the Jews?” Jesus said to him, “So you say.”

• Acts 18:12 NT

  But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before the judgment seat,

• John 18:28 NT

  They led Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. It was early, and they themselves didn’t enter into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover.

• John 18:33 NT

  Pilate therefore entered again into the Praetorium, called Jesus, and said to him, “Are you the King of the Jews?”

• John 19:9 NT

  He entered into the Praetorium again, and said to Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus gave him no answer.

• Acts 18:14 NT

  But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, “If indeed it were a matter of wrong or of wicked crime, you Jews, it would be reasonable that I should bear with you;

• Acts 18:15 NT

  but if they are questions about words and names and your own law, look to it yourselves. For I don’t want to be a judge of these matters.”

• John 18:31 NT

  Pilate therefore said to them, “Take him yourselves, and judge him according to your law.” Therefore the Jews said to him, “It is illegal for us to put anyone to death,”

• Acts 22:25-29 NT

  When they had tied him up with thongs, Paul asked the centurion who stood by, “Is it lawful for you to scourge a man who is a Roman, and not found guilty?” When the centurion heard it, he went to the commanding officer and told him, “Watch…