One witness is not enough to convict anyone accused of any crime or offense they may have committed. A matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses. (Deut 19:15)31 With each of these textual parameters in play, we are better able to understand Matthew’s description of the process for restoring one who has strayed into sin. The initial admonition occurs in private—between the person witnessing the transgression and their “sister or brother” (ἀδελφός, adelphos; here, a sibling