Revelation 3:12

3:12 The one who conquers I will make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will never depart from it. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God (the new Jerusalem that comes down out of heaven from my God), and my new name as well.

Revelation 14:1

An Interlude: The Song of the 144,000

14:1 Then I looked, and here was the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him were one hundred and forty-four thousand, who had his name and his Father’s name written on their foreheads.


tn Or “who is victorious”; traditionally, “who overcomes.”

tn Grk “I will make him,” but the pronoun (αὐτόν, auton, “him”) is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated here.

tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

sn This description of the city of my God is parenthetical, explaining further the previous phrase and interrupting the list of “new names” given here.

tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence within the narrative.

tn The phrase “and here was” expresses the sense of καὶ ἰδού (kai idou).