The New Jerusalem

⁹Then came xone of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of ythe seven last plagues and spoke to me, saying, “Come, I will show you zthe Bride, the wife of the Lamb.” ¹⁰And ahe carried me away in the Spirit to ba great, high mountain, and showed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God, ¹¹chaving the glory of God, dits radiance elike a most rare jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal. ¹²It had a great, high wall, fwith twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and on the gates the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel were inscribed— ¹³on the east three gates, on the north three gates, on the south three gates, and on the west three gates. ¹⁴And the wall of the city had twelve gfoundations, and hon them were the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

¹⁵And the one who spoke with me ihad a measuring rod of gold to measure the city and its gates and walls. ¹⁶The city lies foursquare, its length the same as its width. And he measured the city with his rod, 12,000 stadia.4 Its length and width and height are equal. ¹⁷He also measured its wall, 144 cubits5 by jhuman measurement, which is also kan angel's measurement. ¹⁸The wall was built of ljasper, while the city was pure gold, like lclear glass. ¹⁹mThe foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with every kind of jewel. The first was jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald, ²⁰the fifth onyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, the twelfth amethyst. ²¹And the twelve gates were twelve pearls, each of the gates made of a single pearl, and nthe street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.

²²And oI saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb. ²³And the city phas no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for qthe glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb. ²⁴By its light rwill the nations walk, and the kings of the earth swill bring their glory into it, ²⁵and tits gates will never be shut by day—and uthere will be no night there. ²⁶They will bring into it the glory and the honor of the nations. ²⁷But vnothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those who are written in the Lamb's wbook of life.

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