Quotes about Verification

If you're going to make up stories about miracles and events that you are claiming really happened, you have to wait until all the eyewitnesses are dead and gone.

late modernity has tried to squeeze more and more areas of human discourse into the first type of "truth," making a "fact" out of everything and thereby trying to put everything into the kind of box which can be weighed, measured, and verified as if it were an experiment in the hard sciences like chemistry, or even an equation in mathematics. But this attempt has overreached itself, not least in areas like history and sociology.

Then bring your youngest brother to me so that your words can be verified, that you may not die.” And to this they consented.

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 three witnesses.

David sent out spies to verify that Saul had arrived.

But I did not believe these things until I came and saw with my own eyes. Indeed, not even half was told to me. Your wisdom and prosperity have far exceeded the report I heard.

But I did not believe the reports until I came and saw with my own eyes. Indeed, not half of the greatness of your wisdom was told to me. You have far exceeded the report I heard.

Everything was verified by number and weight, and the total weight was recorded at that time.

The following came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer, but could not prove that their families were descended from Israel:

After the report had been investigated and verified, both officials were hanged on the gallows. And all this was recorded in the Book of the Chronicles in the presence of the king.

Indeed, we have investigated, and it is true! So hear it and know for yourself.”

Pilate was surprised to hear that Jesus was already dead, so he summoned the centurion to ask if this was so.