There are three gates on the east side, three gates on the north side, three gates on the south side and three gates on the west side.

But at his gate lay a poor man named Lazarus whose body was covered with sores,

When he knocked at the door of the outer gate, a slave girl named Rhoda answered.

When she recognized Peter’s voice, she was so overjoyed she did not open the gate, but ran back in and told them that Peter was standing at the gate.

It has a massive, high wall with twelve gates, with twelve angels at the gates, and the names of the twelve tribes of the nation of Israel are written on the gates.

And the twelve gates are twelve pearls – each one of the gates is made from just one pearl! The main street of the city is pure gold, like transparent glass.

Its gates will never be closed during the day (and there will be no night there).

When he went out to the gateway, another slave girl saw him and said to the people there, “This man was with Jesus the Nazarene.”

The priest of the temple of Zeus, located just outside the city, brought bulls and garlands to the city gates; he and the crowds wanted to offer sacrifices to them.

The angel who spoke to me had a golden measuring rod with which to measure the city and its foundation stones and wall.

Now while Peter was puzzling over what the vision he had seen could signify, the men sent by Cornelius had learned where Simon’s house was and approached the gate.

Blessed are those who wash their robes so they can have access to the tree of life and can enter into the city by the gates.