'Statement' in the Bible

Again, it was said, Whoever puts away his wife has to give her a statement in writing for this purpose:

But let your statement be, ‘Yes, yes’ or ‘No, no’; anything beyond these is of evil.

Then the disciples came up and told Him, “Do You know that the Pharisees took offense when they heard this statement?”

They say to him, Why then did Moses give orders that a husband might give her a statement in writing and be free from her?

But He said to them, “Not all men can accept this statement, but only those to whom it has been given.

But when the young man heard this statement he went away sad, because he had many possessions.

Then the Pharisees went {and consulted} so that they could entrap him with a statement.

And Peter remembered the statement Jesus had said, "Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times," and he went outside [and] wept bitterly.

And he did not reply to him, not even with reference to one statement, so that the governor was very astonished.

And they put up over his head the statement of his crime in writing, THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS.