Revelation 19:12 BSB

Revelation 19:12

He has eyes like blazing fire, and many royal crowns on His head. He has a name written on Him that only He Himself knows.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And his eyes are a flame of fire, and upon his head are many diadems; and he hath a name written which no one knoweth but he himself.

KJV

His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.

⋯

Commentary

4 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

His eyes were as a flame of fire - To denote the piercing and all-penetrating nature of his wisdom. On his head were many crowns - To denote the multitude of his conquests, and the extent of his dominion. A name written, that no man knew - This is a reference to what the rabbins call the shem hammephorash, or tetragrammaton, יהוה Yhvh; or what we call Jehovah.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

And his eyes are a flame of fire - They were said to be as or like a flame of fire, before, chap. i, 14; an emblem of his omniscience. And upon his head are many diadems - For he is king of all nations.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The New Park Street Pulpit, Sermon No. 281: “The Saviour's Many Crowns” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1859)

AH, WELL YE KNOW what head this was, and ye have not forgotten its marvellous history. A head which once in infancy reclined upon the bosom of a woman! A head which was meekly bowed in obedience to a carpenter! A head which became in after years a fountain of water, and a reservoir of tears. A head which “sweat as it were great drops of blood falling to the ground!”

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Identifying Him with the Son of man similarly described, Re 1:14. many crowns--Greek, "diadems": not merely (Greek, "stephanoi") garlands of victory, but royal crowns, as KING OF KINGS. Christ's diadem comprises all the diadems of the earth and of heavenly powers too.

Voices on this verse

loading…

Original language & word study

23 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
οἱ	hoi	<the>	G3588 →
δὲ	de	And	G1161 →
ὀφθαλμοὶ	ophthalmoi	the eyes	G3788 →
αὐτοῦ	autou	of Him	G846 →
ὡς	hōs	[are] like	G5613 →
φλὸξ	phlox	a flame	G5395 →
πυρὸς	puros	of fire	G4442 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἐπὶ	epi	upon	G1909 →
τὴν	tēn	the	G3588 →
κεφαλὴν	kephalēn	head	G2776 →
αὐτοῦ	autou	of Him	G846 →
διαδήματα	diadēmata	royal crowns	G1238 →
πολλὰ	polla	many	G4183 →
ἔχων	echōn	having	G2192 →
ὄνομα	onoma	a name	G3686 →
γεγραμμένον	gegrammenon	written	G1125 →
ὃ	ho	which	G3739 →
οὐδεὶς	oudeis	no [one]	G3762 →
οἶδεν	oiden	knows
εἰ	ei	only	G1487 →
μὴ	mē	except	G3361 →
αὐτὸς	autos	He Himself	G846 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Matthew 11:27
All things have been entrusted to Me by My Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses…
leads to
- John 14:6–9
  Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
- Matthew 28:18
  Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me.
- Luke 10:22
  All things have been entrusted to Me by My Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and no one knows who the Father is except the Son and those to…
- 2 John 1:9
  Anyone who runs ahead without remaining in the teaching of Christ does not have God. Whoever remains in His teaching has both the Father and the Son.
- John 17:25–26
  Righteous Father, although the world has not known You, I know You, and they know that You sent Me.
Through
Revelation 19:16
And He has a name written on His robe and on His thigh: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.
leads to
- Revelation 17:14
  They will make war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will triumph over them, because He is Lord of lords and King of kings; and He will be accompanied by His called and chosen…
- 1 Timothy 6:15
  which the blessed and only Sovereign One—the King of kings and Lord of lords—will bring about in His own time.
Through
Revelation 1:14
The hair of His head was white like wool, as white as snow, and His eyes were like a blazing fire.
leads to
- Daniel 10:6
  His body was like beryl, his face like the brilliance of lightning, his eyes like flaming torches, his arms and legs like the gleam of polished bronze, and his voice like the sound of…