Add parallel Print Page Options

but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample over the holy city for forty-two months.[a] And I will grant my two witnesses[b] power to prophesy for one thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.”

These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands which stand before the Lord of the earth.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 11.2 The three and a half years’ persecution of the Jews by Antiochus Epiphanes, 168–165 b.c, had become the standard time of a persecution. Three and a half years equals 42 months equals 1,260 days (verse 3).
  2. 11.3 two witnesses: As they have yet to die, possibly they are Elijah and Enoch.

But exclude the outer court;(A) do not measure it, because it has been given to the Gentiles.(B) They will trample on the holy city(C) for 42 months.(D) And I will appoint my two witnesses,(E) and they will prophesy for 1,260 days,(F) clothed in sackcloth.”(G) They are “the two olive trees”(H) and the two lampstands, and “they stand before the Lord of the earth.”[a](I)

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Revelation 11:4 See Zech. 4:3,11,14.