and I will strike her children dead. And all the churches will know that I am he who searches mind and heart, and I will give to each of you according to your works.

His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she bore her child he might devour it.

She gave birth to a male child, one who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, but her child was caught up to God and to his throne,

And when the dragon saw that he had been thrown down to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child.