Revelation 22 — Greek text and reception
Each card preserves the Greek reading and its textual and reception notes. This source provides a Greek study edition; Hebrew counterparts and Hebrew–Greek classifications are not supplied.
Chapter 22
The river and the tree of life
Verse 22:1
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And he showed me a river of water of life, bright as crystal, coming out of the throne of God and of the Lamb,
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: The river originates from the singular throne of God and the Lamb. Bright as crystal describes its appearance, and the sentence continues into 22:2.
Reception: R067 (Victorinus tradition; scope 21:13,21:16,21:18–21,21:23,21:25,22:1–2); R086 (John Bunyan; scope 22:1–2).
Verse 22:2
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
in the middle of its broad street. And on this side and that side of the river was a tree of life bearing twelve fruits, yielding its fruit each month; and the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: The street phrase is retained at the start of source 22:2 with the river description. Twelve fruits does not specify twelve botanical varieties; the monthly yielding explains the succession of fruit.
Reception: R067 (Victorinus tradition; scope 21:13,21:16,21:18–21,21:23,21:25,22:1–2); R086 (John Bunyan; scope 22:1–2).
Verse 22:3
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And no accursed thing will be any more. And the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and His slaves will serve Him,
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: His remains singular after God and the Lamb, preserving the source pronouns without splitting the service into two newly stated clauses.
Reception: No passage-specific reception verified in this review.
Verse 22:4
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
and they will see His face, and His name will be upon their foreheads.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: Seeing His face and bearing His name are two promises to the serving slaves of 22:3. The singular pronouns remain after God and the Lamb.
Reception: No passage-specific reception verified in this review.
Verse 22:5
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And night will be no more, and they have no need of lamplight and sunlight, because the Lord God will shine upon them, and they will reign for the ages of the ages.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: Divine illumination replaces need for both lamp and sun. Their reign extends for ages of ages, without the thousand-year qualifier found earlier.
Reception: No passage-specific reception verified in this review.
Faithful and true words
Verse 22:6
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And he said to me, “These words are faithful and true, and the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, sent His angel to show His slaves the things that must take place soon.”
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: The title is God of the spirits of the prophets, not God of the holy prophets.
Reception: No passage-specific reception verified in this review.
Verse 22:7
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
“And look, I am coming quickly. Blessed is the one who keeps the words of the prophecy of this scroll.”
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: The first-person promise of quick coming is joined to a blessing on keeping this scroll's prophecy. Keeping involves response, not merely possessing a copy.
Reception: No passage-specific reception verified in this review.
Verse 22:8
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And I, John, am the one hearing and seeing these things. And when I heard and saw, I fell to worship before the feet of the angel showing me these things.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: John names himself as hearer and seer, then narrates his attempted worship before the revealing angel. The next verse expressly corrects that act.
Reception: No passage-specific reception verified in this review.
Verse 22:9
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And he says to me, “See that you do not! I am your fellow slave and of your brothers the prophets and of those keeping the words of this scroll. Worship God.”
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: The angel calls himself fellow slave alongside John, prophets and obedient hearers. Worship God is the explicit redirection of John's action.
Reception: No passage-specific reception verified in this review.
Verse 22:10
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And he says to me, “Do not seal the words of the prophecy of this scroll, for the time is near.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: The prophecy must remain unsealed because the time is near. This contrasts with the specific prohibition on recording the seven thunders in 10:4.
Reception: No passage-specific reception verified in this review.
Verse 22:11
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
Let the one doing wrong do wrong still, and let the filthy one be filthy still, and let the righteous one do righteousness still, and let the holy one be sanctified still.”
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: The four imperatives are retained as the announcement’s rhetorical form; the first two are not made into a general endorsement of wrongdoing by the translator.
Reception: No passage-specific reception verified in this review.
The coming One and the invitation
Verse 22:12
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
“Look, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to repay each according to what his work is.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: Reward accompanies the coming speaker and is apportioned according to each person's work. The singular work summarizes action without adding a named reward system.
Reception: No passage-specific reception verified in this review.
Verse 22:13
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.”
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: Three paired titles appear together: Alpha/Omega, first/last and beginning/end. Their full combination is not retroactively inserted into earlier shorter declarations.
Reception: No passage-specific reception verified in this review.
Verse 22:14
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
Blessed are those washing their robes, so that their authority may be over the tree of life, and they may enter through the gates into the city.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: Washing their robes is the accessed reading, not doing His commandments. Authority over the tree expresses access or right to it, without replacing the source noun.
Reception: R091 (John Bunyan; scope 22:14).
Verse 22:15
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
Outside are the dogs and the sorcerers and the sexually immoral and the murderers and the idolaters and everyone loving and practicing falsehood.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: Dogs is the source’s figurative label in this exclusion list; the translation does not identify a specific modern group with it.
Reception: No passage-specific reception verified in this review.
Verse 22:16
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
“I, Jesus, sent My angel to testify these things to you for the Churches. I am the Root and the offspring of David, the bright morning star.”
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: Jesus names Himself and His mission of the angel. Root, Davidic offspring and bright morning star are all retained as His self-descriptions.
Reception: No passage-specific reception verified in this review.
Verse 22:17
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And the Spirit and the bride say, “Come.” And let the one who hears say, “Come.” And let the one who thirsts come; let the one who wishes take water of life freely.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: Spirit and bride summon Come, and the hearer joins them; the thirsty and willing are then invited to take life's water freely. The shifts in addressee remain visible.
Reception: No passage-specific reception verified in this review.
The final testimony
Verse 22:18
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this scroll: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues written in this scroll.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: This scroll refers to the prophecy being read. The warning is translated as part of Revelation, not expanded into a new claim about a later table of contents.
Reception: R071 (Irenaeus; scope 22:18–19).
Verse 22:19
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And if anyone takes away from the words of the scroll of this prophecy, God will take away his share from the tree of life and from the holy city, the things written in this scroll.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: Tree of life is the accessed reading, not book of life in this clause.
Reception: R071 (Irenaeus; scope 22:18–19).
Verse 22:20
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
The One testifying these things says, “Yes, I am coming quickly.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: The testimony's promise receives an Amen and a direct appeal to Lord Jesus. The response belongs here even though 22:21 has no additional Amen.
Reception: No passage-specific reception verified in this review.
Verse 22:21
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: The ending reads Lord Jesus and with all, without an added Christ, saints, you, or final Amen. The Amen in 22:20 is present and retained.
Reception: No passage-specific reception verified in this review.