And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsAnd the gates thereof shall in no wise be shut by day (for there shall be no night there):
Its gates will never be shut at the end of the day, because there will be no night there.
and its gates shall not at all be shut by day, for night shall not be there;
And its gates shall not be shut at all by day, for night shall not be there.
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