Commentary for Shevuot 69:4
עמד בבית הכנסת ואמר משביע אני עליכם שאם אתם יודעין לי עדות שתבואו ותעידוני הרי אלו פטורין עד שיהא מתכוין להם
HE SAID TO TWO [PERSONS].' I ADJURE YOU, SO-AND-SO AND SO-AND-SO, THAT IF YOU KNOW ANY TESTIMONY FOR ME YOU SHOULD COME AND BEAR TESTIMONY FOR ME,' [AND THEY REPLIED,] 'WE SWEAR WE KNOW NO TESTIMONY FOR YOU;' AND THEY DID KNOW TESTIMONY FOR HIM, [BUT IT WAS EVIDENCE OF] 'ONE WITNESS FROM THE MOUTH OF ANOTHER WITNESS;'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A technical phrase denoting indirect evidence. They had no direct evidence, but only what they had heard from others; they could not, in any case, offer that as testimony.');"><sup>7</sup></span>
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