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And I saw the holy city—the new Jerusalem—descending out of heaven from God, made ready like a bride adorned for her husband.

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10 So[a] he took me away in the Spirit[b] to a huge, majestic mountain[c] and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God.

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 21:10 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the implied result of the angel’s invitation.
  2. Revelation 21:10 tn Or “in the spirit.” “Spirit” could refer either to the Holy Spirit or the human spirit, but in either case John was in “a state of spiritual exaltation best described as a trance” (R. H. Mounce, Revelation [NICNT], 75).
  3. Revelation 21:10 tn Grk “to a mountain great and high.”