Jon Collins
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Appearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So he's essentially saying, look, I've done right by you all.
And if there's anybody who thinks I've done wrong against them, and then he uses this phrase, bear witness, and then the bait preposition connected to the word me.
So literally what he says is, respond to me.
But when he then brings up all of these, whose ox have I taken?
Whose donkey have I taken?
He's asking them to bring a legal charge.
And he knows that nobody can because he's done right by them.
So how you bring an official charge or bear witness in a public way to represent a claim about somebody, you use this phrase, bearing witness.
Respond, yeah, with regard to me.
Yeah, that's right.
Here's a couple other examples.
Isaiah 59 says,
Our transgressions, O God, are multiplied before you.
Our sins bear witness about us.
Yeah, or testify.