¹¹ Then I said to him, “I saw one olive tree on the right side of the lampstand and one on the left side. What do those two olive trees mean?” ¹² I also said to him, “I saw two olive branches by the gold tubes with gold colored oil flowing from them. What do these things mean?”

¹³ Then the angel said to me, “Don’t you know what these things mean?”

I said, “No, sir.”

¹⁴ So he said, “They represent the two men chosen^[a] to serve the Lord of the whole world.”