Revelation 21:23
The city had no need of the sun or the moon in order to shine on it because the glory of God shone on it, and its lamp is the Lamb.
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22I saw no temple in the city, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.
Cross References
Isaiah 2:19Men will go into the caves of the rocks and the holes of the ground, 1 from the terror of Yahweh, and from the glory of his majesty, when he rises to terrify the earth. 1
Isaiah 24:23Then the moon will be ashamed, and the sun disgraced, 1 for Yahweh of hosts will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, 1 and before his elders in glory.
Habakkuk 3:3God came from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah 1 His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise. 1
Mark 8:38Whoever is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”
John 1:4In him was life, and the life was the light of men.
John 1:14The Word became flesh and lived among us. We have seen his glory, glory as of the one and only who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
Matthew Henry on Revelation 21:10-27
The New Jerusalem. ( a. d. 95.) 9 And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will show thee the bride, the Lamb's wife. 10 And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, 11 Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal; 12 And had a… Read the whole commentary →