Revelation 19:13 BSB

Revelation 19:13

He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and His name is The Word of God.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And he is arrayed in a garment sprinkled with blood: and his name is called The Word of God.

KJV

And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.

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Commentary

4 voices

Origen of Alexandria

COMMENTARY ON THE GOSPEL OF JOHN 2.61 (253)

John does not see the Word of God mounted on a horse naked. He is clothed with a garment sprinkled with blood, since the Word who became flesh, and died because he became flesh, is invested with traces of that passion, since his blood also was poured forth upon the earth when the soldier pierced his side. For perhaps, even if in some way we attain the most sublime and highest contemplation of the Word and of the truth, we shall not forget completely that we were introduced to him by his coming in our body.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood,.... Either in his own, by which he became the Saviour of his church and people; or else in the blood of his saints, he now comes to avenge; or rather in the blood of his enemies, with which he appears as stained, before the battle is fought, the victory being sure, and their slaughter unavoidable: the metaphor is taken from persons treading in a winepress, whose garments are stained with blood of grapes; see Rev 19:

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

And he is clothed in a vesture dipped in blood - The blood of the enemies he hath already conquered.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood - Red, as if dipped in blood - emblem of slaughter. The original of this image is probably Isa 63:2-3. See the notes on that passage. And his name is called The Word of God - The name which in Rev 19:12, it is said that no one knew but he himself. This name is Ὁ λόγος τοῦ Θεοῦ Ho logos tou Theou, or “the Logos of God.” That is, this is his unique name; a name which belongs only to him, and which distinguishes him from all other beings.

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
περιβεβλημένος	peribeblēmenos	having clothed themselves with	G4016 →
ἱμάτιον	himation	a garment	G2440 →
βεβαμμένον	bebammenon	dipped	G911 →
αἵματι,	aimati	in blood,	G129 →
καὶ	kai	And	G2532 →
κέκληται	keklētai	has been called	G2564 →
τὸ	to	the	G3588 →
ὄνομα	onoma	name	G3686 →
αὐτοῦ	autou	of Him	G846 →
ὁ	ho	The	G3588 →
λόγος	logos	Word	G3056 →
τοῦ	tou	<the>	G3588 →
θεοῦ.	theou	of God.	G2316 →

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
John 1:1
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
leads to
- Genesis 1:1
  In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
- John 17:5
  And now, Father, glorify Me in Your presence with the glory I had with You before the world existed.
- Colossians 1:17
  He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.
- John 1:14
  The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
- 1 John 1:1–2
  That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our own eyes, which we have gazed upon and touched with our own hands—this is the Word of life.
Through
John 1:14
The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
leads to
- 1 John 4:9
  This is how God’s love was revealed among us: God sent His one and only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him.
- 1 Timothy 3:16
  By common confession, the mystery of godliness is great: He appeared in the flesh, was vindicated by the Spirit, was seen by angels, was proclaimed among the nations, was believed in throughout the world,…
- Galatians 4:4
  But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,