And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
And I wept much, because no one was found worthy to open the book, or to look thereon:
WEB
And I began to weep bitterly, because no one was found worthy to open the scroll or look inside it.
YLT
And I was weeping much, because no one was found worthy to open and to read the scroll, nor to behold it,
DBT
And I wept much because no one had been found worthy to open the book nor to regard it.
About this book
New Testament▾
About this book
New TestamentRevelation — John on Patmos sees the Lamb who was slain enthroned, the scroll opened, Babylon fallen, and the new Jerusalem descending. The canon's capstone — and its most interpretively contested book.
- Author
- John (traditional — apostle of Jesus; same author as the Fourth Gospel). Some modern critical scholarship distinguishes ‘John of Patmos’ from the apostle; site defaults to traditional attribution
- Date
- Late-date c. AD 95–96 under Domitian (Irenaeus, mainstream traditional); early-date c. AD 65–68 under Nero (required by most preterist readings). Site surfaces both