³ Also there are two olive trees^(A) by it, one on the right of the bowl and the other on its left.”

⁴ They are “the two olive trees”^(A) and the two lampstands, and “they stand before the Lord of the earth.”^[a](B)

¹⁴ So he said, “These are the two who are anointed^(A) to^[a] serve the Lord of all the earth.”

¹⁷ If some of the branches have been broken off,^(A) and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others^(B) and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root,

¹¹ Then I asked the angel, “What are these two olive trees^(A) on the right and the left of the lampstand?”

¹² Again I asked him, “What are these two olive branches beside the two gold pipes that pour out golden oil?”

²⁴ After all, if you were cut out of an olive tree that is wild by nature, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree,^(A) how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree!

⁹ “But the olive tree answered, ‘Should I give up my oil, by which both gods and humans are honored, to hold sway over the trees?’