Revelation 1:2

who bore witness to the word of God, and to the testimony of Jesus the Messiah, as to all that he saw.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.

In Context

1THE Revelation of Jesus the Messiah, which God gave to him, to show to his servants the things that must shortly occur: and he signified it by sending, through his angel, to his servant John;

3Blessed is he that readeth, and they who hear the words of this prophecy, and keep the things that are written in it; for the time is near.

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Cross References

John 3:11Verily, verily, I say to thee: We speak, what we know; and we testify to what we have seen; but ye receive not our testimony.

John 19:35And he who saw it, hath testified: and his testimony is true: and he knoweth, that he speaketh the truth, that ye also may believe.

Acts 4:20For we cannot but speak that which we have seen and heard.

Acts 26:16And he said to me: Stand upon thy feet; for I have appeared to thee, for this purpose, to constitute thee a minister and a witness of this thy seeing me, and of thy seeing me hereafter.

1 Corinthians 2:1And I, my Brethren, when I came to you, did not preach to you the mystery of God in magnificent speech, nor in wisdom.

1 John 4:14And we have seen, and do testify, that the Father hath sent his Son, a Redeemer for the world.

Matthew Henry on Revelation 1:2-3

Revelation AN EXPOSITION, WITH PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS, OF THE REVELATION OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE It ought to be no prejudice to the credit and authority of this book that it has been rejected by men of corrupt minds, such as Cerdon and Marcion, and doubted of by men of a better character; for this has been the lot of other parts of holy writ, and of the divine Author of the scripture himself. The image and superscription of this book are truly sacred and divine, and the matter of it agreeable with other prophetical… Read the whole commentary →

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