These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
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4 additional translationsASV
These are the two olive trees and the two candlesticks, standing before the Lord of the earth.
WEB
These witnesses are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth.
YLT
these are the two olive trees , and the two lamp-stands that before the God of the earth do stand;
DBT
These are the two olive trees and the two lamps which stand before the Lord of the earth;
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