Revelation Chapter 1 verse 2 Holy Bible
who bare witness of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, `even' of all things that he saw.
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Who gave witness of the word of God, and of the witness of Jesus Christ, even of all the things which he saw.
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who testified the word of God, and the testimony of Jesus Christ, all things that he saw.
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Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.
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who testified to God's word, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, about everything that he saw.
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who did testify the word of God, and the testimony of Jesus Christ, as many things also as he did see.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 2. - Who bare record. "To bear witness" (μαρτυρεῖν) and "witness," or "testimony" (μαρτυρία), are characteristic of St. John's writings, and serve to connect together his Gospel, the First Epistle, and the Apocalypse. Such words should be carefully noted, and, so far as possible, uniformly translated, in order to mark their frequency in the English Version. The Authorized Version rings the changes on "bear witness," "bear record," "give record," and "testify," for μαρτυρεῖν; and on "witness," "record," and "testimony," for μαρτυρία. The Revised Version has here made great improvements. To bear witness to the truth and the Word of God was St. John's special function throughout his long life, and to this fact he calls attention in all his chief writings (see Haupt on 1 John 5:6). The testimony of Jesus Christ, like "the Revelation of Jesus Christ" (ver. 1), means that which he gave, not that which tells about him. And of all things that he saw; better, as in the Revised Version, even of all things that he saw, taking δσα εἵδεν in apposition with what precedes. The seer is here speaking of the visions of the Apocalypse, not of the events in Christ's life. The aorists, ἐμαρτύρησεν and εἵδεν, are rightly compared to the συνέγραψε of Thucydides (1:1; 6:7, 93).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(2) Who bare record.--Elsewhere as well as here. And he tells us of what he bore record--of the Word of God. The writer declares that the substance of his testimony and witness had been this Word of God. We have here an indication of what the general character of his teaching had been. It evidently had been a teaching laying stress on that aspect of truth which is so forcibly set before us in the Fourth Gospel and the Epistles bearing the name of John. (Comp. Revelation 19:11; John 1:1; John 1:14; 1John 1:1, et al. Note also that the words "record," "testimony," "witness," found in this verse, recur in the Gospel and Epistles. Comp. John 5:31-40; John 19:35; John 21:24.) . . .
