And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they?
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4 additional translationsAnd one of the elders answered, saying unto me, These that are arrayed in the white robes, who are they, and whence came they?
Then one of the elders addressed me: “These in white robes,” he asked, “who are they, and where have they come from?”
And answer did one of the elders, saying to me, `These, who have been arrayed with the white robes--who are they, and whence came they?'
And one of the elders answered, saying to me, These who are clothed with white robes, who are they, and whence came they?
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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