And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsAnd no one in the heaven, or on the earth, or under the earth, was able to open the book, or to look thereon.
But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or look inside it.
and no one was able in the heaven, nor upon the earth, nor under the earth, to open the scroll, nor to behold it.
And no one was able in the heaven, or upon the earth, or underneath the earth, to open the book, or to regard it.
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