¹⁸ While he was speaking, I fainted and lay there with my face to the ground. But Gabriel roused me with a touch and helped me to my feet.

¹⁸ Then the one who looked like a man touched me again, and I felt my strength returning.

³² Peter and the others had fallen asleep. When they woke up, they saw Jesus’ glory and the two men standing with him.

¹⁶ Then the one who looked like a man^[a] touched my lips, and I opened my mouth and began to speak. I said to the one standing in front of me, “I am filled with anguish because of the vision I have seen, my lord, and I am very weak.

² The Spirit came into me as he spoke, and he set me on my feet. I listened carefully to his words.

⁸ So I was left there all alone to see this amazing vision. My strength left me, my face grew deathly pale, and I felt very weak. ⁹ Then I heard the man speak, and when I heard the sound of his voice, I fainted and lay there with my face to the ground.

¹⁰ Just then a hand touched me and lifted me, still trembling, to my hands and knees.

⁶ Now I am on trial because of my hope in the fulfillment of God’s promise made to our ancestors.

⁴⁵ At last he stood up again and returned to the disciples, only to find them asleep, exhausted from grief.

A Lampstand and Two Olive Trees

4 Then the angel who had been talking with me returned and woke me, as though I had been asleep.

²⁷ Then I, Daniel, was overcome and lay sick for several days. Afterward I got up and performed my duties for the king, but I was greatly troubled by the vision and could not understand it.