And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God,
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Parallel translations
4 additional translationsAnd the four and twenty elders, who sit before God on their thrones, fell upon their faces and worshipped God,
And the twenty-four elders who sit on their thrones before God fell on their faces and worshiped God,
and the twenty and four elders, who before God are sitting upon their thrones, did fall upon their faces, and did bow before God,
And the twenty-four elders, who sit on their thrones beforeGod, fell upon their faces, and worshippedGod,
About this book
New Testament▾
About this book
New TestamentRevelation — John on Patmos sees the Lamb who was slain enthroned, the scroll opened, Babylon fallen, and the new Jerusalem descending. The canon's capstone — and its most interpretively contested book.
- Author
- John (traditional — apostle of Jesus; same author as the Fourth Gospel). Some modern critical scholarship distinguishes ‘John of Patmos’ from the apostle; site defaults to traditional attribution
- Date
- Late-date c. AD 95–96 under Domitian (Irenaeus, mainstream traditional); early-date c. AD 65–68 under Nero (required by most preterist readings). Site surfaces both