And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
And the building of the wall thereof was jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto pure glass.
WEB
The wall was made of jasper, and the city itself of pure gold, as pure as glass.
YLT
and the building of its wall was jasper, and the city is pure gold--like to pure glass;
DBT
And the building of its wall [was] jasper; and the city pure gold, like pure glass:
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