An Eye for an Eye

17 ^r“Whoever takes a human life shall surely be put to death.

30 “If anyone kills a person, the murderer shall be put to death on the ^levidence of witnesses. But no person shall be put to death on the testimony of one witness. 31 Moreover, you shall accept no ransom for the life of a murderer, who is guilty of death, but he shall be put to death.

52 Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back into its place. For ^hall who take the sword will perish by the sword.