Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsBlessed are they that wash their robes, that they may have the right to come to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.
Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by its gates.
`Happy are those doing His commands that the authority shall be theirs unto the tree of the life, and by the gates they may enter into the city;
Blessed [are] they that wash their robes, that they may have right to the tree of life, and that they should go in by the gates into the city.
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