Revelation 20:5 BSB

Revelation 20:5

The rest of the dead did not come back to life until the thousand years were complete. This is the first resurrection.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

The rest of the dead lived not until the thousand years should be finished. This is the first resurrection.

KJV

But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.

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Commentary

4 voices

Andreas of Caesarea

COMMENTARY ON THE APOCALYPSE 20:5-6 (614)

From the holy Scriptures we are taught that there are two lives and two deaths. The first life, which is after the transgression of the commandment, is temporary and fleshly. The [second] life is eternal and is promised to the saints because of Christ's obedience …

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

There is room enough for the fulfilling of all the prophecies, and those which before seemed to clash are reconciled; particularly those which speak, on the one hand, of a most flourishing state of the church as yet to come; and, on the other, of the fatal security of men in the last days of the world.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Those who suffer with Christ shall reign with Christ; they shall reign with him in his spiritual and heavenly kingdom, in a glorious conformity to him in wisdom, righteousness, and holiness, beyond what had been known before in the world. This is called the first resurrection, which none but those who have served Christ and suffered for him shall be favoured with.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

The rights which Rome as a harlot usurped, shall be exercised in holiness by the Bride. They are "kings" because they are "priests" (Re 20:6; 5:10); their priesthood unto God and Christ (Re 7:15) is the ground of their kingship in relation to man.

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Original language & word study

16 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
οἱ	hoi	The	G3588 →
λοιποὶ	loipoi	rest	G3062 →
τῶν	tōn	of the	G3588 →
νεκρῶν	nekrōn	dead	G3498 →
οὐκ	ouk	not	G3756 →
ἔζησαν	ezēsan	lived	G2198 →
ἄχρι	achri	until	G891 →
τελεσθῇ	telesthēa	may have been completed	G5055 →
τὰ	ta	the	G3588 →
χίλια	chilia	thousand	G5507 →
ἔτη.¶	etē	years.	G2094 →
Αὕτη	Hautē	This [is]	G3778 →
ἡ	hē	the	G3588 →
ἀνάστασις	anastasis	resurrection	G386 →
ἡ	hē	<the>	G3588 →
πρώτη.	prōtē	first.	G4413 →

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
Revelation 11:15
Then the seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and loud voices called out in heaven: “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ, and He will reign…
leads to
- Daniel 7:14
  And He was given dominion, glory, and kingship, that the people of every nation and language should serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away, and His kingdom is…
- Revelation 12:10
  And I heard a loud voice in heaven saying: “Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of His Christ. For the accuser of our…
- Daniel 7:27
  Then the sovereignty, dominion, and greatness of the kingdoms under all of heaven will be given to the people, the saints of the Most High. His kingdom will be an everlasting kingdom, and all…
- Revelation 10:7
  But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound his trumpet, the mystery of God will be fulfilled, just as He proclaimed to His servants the…
- Zechariah 14:9
  On that day the LORD will become King over all the earth—the LORD alone, and His name alone.
Through
Luke 14:14
and you will be blessed. Since they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”
leads to
- Proverbs 19:17
  Kindness to the poor is a loan to the LORD, and He will repay the lender.
- Acts 24:15
  and I have the same hope in God that they themselves cherish, that there will be a resurrection of both the righteous and the wicked.
Through
Philippians 3:11
and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.
leads to
- Luke 20:35–36
  But those who are considered worthy to share in the age to come and in the resurrection from the dead will neither marry nor be given in marriage.