statement vs testimony

statement

noun
  • A presentation of opinion or position. 

  • A declaration or remark. 

  • An instruction in a computer program, especially one that returns no value, as opposed to a function call. 

  • A document that summarizes financial activity. 

verb
  • To provide an official document of a proposition, especially in the UK a Statement of Special Educational Needs. 

testimony

noun
  • Statements made by a witness in court. 

  • In a church service (or religious service), a personal account, such as one's conversion, testimony of faith, or life testimony. 

  • An account of first-hand experience. 

  • Witness; evidence; proof of some fact. 

How often have the words statement and testimony occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )