There are<n id="1" /> 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.<n id="2" />

But at his gate lay<n id="1" /> a poor man named Lazarus<n id="2" /> whose body was covered with sores,<n id="3" />

When he knocked at the door of the outer gate, a slave girl named Rhoda answered.<n id="1" />

When she recognized Peter&#8217;s voice, she was so overjoyed she did not open the gate, but ran back in and told<n id="1" /> them<n id="2" /> that Peter was standing at the gate.

It has<n id="1" /> a massive, high wall<n id="2" /> with twelve gates,<n id="3" /> with twelve angels at the gates, and the names of the twelve tribes of the nation of Israel<n id="4" /> are written on the gates.<n id="5" />

And the twelve gates are twelve pearls &#8211; each one of the gates is made from just one pearl! The<n id="1" /> main street<n id="2" /> of the city is pure gold, like transparent glass.p>

Its gates will never be closed during the day<n id="1" /> (and<n id="2" /> there will be no night there).<n id="3" />

When<n id="1" /> he went out to the gateway, another slave girl<n id="2" /> saw him and said to the people there, &#8220;This man was with Jesus the Nazarene.&#8221;

The priest of the temple<n id="1" /> of Zeus,<n id="2" /> located just outside the city, brought bulls<n id="3" /> and garlands<n id="4" /> to the city gates; he and the crowds wanted to offer sacrifices to them.<n id="5" />

<p class="bodytext">The angel<n id="1" /> who spoke to me had a golden measuring rod with which to measure the city and its foundation stones and wall.

<p class="bodytext">Now while Peter was puzzling over<n id="1" /> what the vision he had seen could signify, the men sent by Cornelius had learned where Simon&#8217;s house was<n id="2" /> and approached<n id="3" /> the gate.

<p class="bodytext">Blessed are those who wash their robes so they can have access<n id="1" /> to the tree of life and can enter into the city by the gates.