<p class="bodytext">Now<n id="1" /> when the dragon realized<n id="2" /> that he had been thrown down to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child.

But I have this against you: You tolerate that<n id="1" /> woman<n id="2" /> Jezebel,<n id="3" /> who calls herself a prophetess, and by her teaching deceives<n id="4" /> my servants<n id="5" /> to commit sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols.<n id="6" />

So<n id="1" /> he carried me away in the Spirit<n id="2" /> to a wilderness,<n id="3" /> and there<n id="4" /> I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns.

I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of those who testified to Jesus.<n id="1" /> I<n id="2" /> was greatly astounded<n id="3" /> when I saw her.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then<n id="1" /> one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven final plagues came and spoke to me,<n id="2" /> saying, &#8220;Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb!&#8221;