# Pieter Witses, A Mason, Strangled At The Stake, At Leeuwarden, And His Confession While Imprisoned In That City Where He Laid Down His Life For The Testimony Of Jesus, In The Year 1553. [Previous page: OF A PIOUS BROTHER WHO WAS PUT TO DEATH FOR THE WORD OF GOD, IN THE CITY OF VUREN IN FLANDERS, A. D. 1553.](/en/stories/mm-of-a-pious-brother-who-was-put-to-death-for-the-word-of-god-in-the-city-of-vuren-in-flanders-a-d-1553/) · [Book contents](/en/sources/martyrs-mirror/#book-contents) · [Next page: A BRIEF ADMONITION FROM PIETER WITSES.](/en/stories/mm-a-brief-admonition-from-pieter-witses/) In Questions and Answers. Question. “What is your name?” Answer. “Pieter Witses.” Quest. “How old are you?” Ans. “Twenty-seven years.” Quest. “When were you to confession last?” Ans. “I confess every day, and acknowledge that I am a sinner.” Quest. “What do you think of the sacrament?” Ans. “I esteem it highly.” Quest. “What do you think of the sacrament which the priest gives on Easter?” Ans. “Nothing.” Quest. “Christ said: ‘Take, eat; this is my flesh.’ ” Ans. “It is true; but he spake it to those who were obedient to him.” Quest. “Are you also rebaptized?” Ans. “I know of no rebaptism; I was baptized once, and that according to the teaching of God.” Quest. “How long ago?” Ans. “About a year and a half.” Then Pieter was put into a dungeon, and having been there for about an hour, was again taken before the lords, and asked anew: “Pieter, are you seduced? Will you not suffer yourself to be instructed?” Ans. “Yes, gladly; he that rejects reproof and instruction is miserable. Prov. 10:17. Take a Testament, and instruct me.” Quest. “We are no teachers; will you not suffer yourself to be instructed by priests?” Ans. “God is the best priest; he will instruct me, and to this I shall adhere by the grace of God.” Quest. “Some vagabond has been preaching to you.” They further said that they had read in the Old Testament, that many children were baptized. Pieter replied: “I have read nothing about this; I have read that Christ commanded to baptize believers. Matthew 28:19; Mark 16:16; that it was practiced by the apostles, Acts 2:38; and that Peter taught: ‘Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto you, and to your children,’ ” etc. He also quoted John 3. Then they said: “Pieter, you are deceived; are your brethren also thus minded?” He replied: “What do I know about my brethren? I can speak of what God has given me; that I know.” He further quoted the words of Christ, where he says: Go into all the world; preach and teach: he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved. Mark 16:16. Also, that Christ came to John at the Jordan, to be baptized of him, in order that he might fulfill all righteousness for us, to be an example, that we should follow his steps. Matt. 3:13,15; 1 Pet. 2:21. And after Christ’s suffering the apostles, who were his body and church, practiced it. Concerning their supper, he confessed, that he thought nothing at all of it. They admonished him with the Gospel, which he regarded as all right, but not as having been said with reference to their church; for Christ, said he, said to his apostles: “Take, eat; this is my body, which is broken for you.” Also the cup: “Drink ye all of it; for this is the cup of the new testament in my blood, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.” Matthew 26:26–28. Christians are to observe it, as Paul teaches the Corinthians, where it is clearly expressed. 1 Corinthians 10:16. They said that the supper which they eat and drink was true flesh and blood, and asked me whether we did not also thus eat and drink it. I replied: “Christ said: ‘The flesh profiteth nothing, eaten outwardly; but the word is spirit and life.’ John 6:63. And our church is not without the body of Christ.” ## Original source [Read this passage on Project Gutenberg](https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/65855/pg65855-images.html#Page_527) [Edition details](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65855) [Previous page: OF A PIOUS BROTHER WHO WAS PUT TO DEATH FOR THE WORD OF GOD, IN THE CITY OF VUREN IN FLANDERS, A. 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