Revelation 5 — 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 5
The sealed scroll
Verse 5:1
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And I saw upon the right hand of the One sitting upon the throne a scroll written within and on the back, sealed with seven seals.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: Within and on the back describe writing on both sides of the scroll. Seven seals mark closure; no specific legal document type is named.
Reception: R028 (Victorinus tradition; scope 5:1–5).
Verse 5:2
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And I saw a mighty angel proclaiming in a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the scroll and loose its seals?”
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: Worthy is the criterion posed by the angel; physical strength alone is not presented as sufficient to open the scroll.
Reception: R028 (Victorinus tradition; scope 5:1–5).
Verse 5:3
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And no one in heaven or upon the earth or beneath the earth was able to open the scroll or look at it.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: Heaven, earth and beneath the earth exhaust the stated search. Both opening and looking at the scroll are denied.
Reception: R028 (Victorinus tradition; scope 5:1–5).
Verse 5:4
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And I wept much, because no one was found worthy to open the scroll or look at it.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: John weeps because no worthy opener has been found. The repeated inability to open or look sustains the preceding impasse.
Reception: R028 (Victorinus tradition; scope 5:1–5).
Verse 5:5
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And one of the elders says to me, “Do not weep. Look, the Lion from the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, conquered, to open the scroll and its seven seals.”
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: Lion of Judah and Root of David describe the announced conqueror; the Lamb John then sees is not substituted into the elder's words.
Reception: R028 (Victorinus tradition; scope 5:1–5).
The Lamb and the new song
Verse 5:6
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And I saw in the midst of the throne and the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, a Lamb standing as slaughtered, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent into all the earth.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: As slaughtered preserves the comparison alongside standing. The verse itself identifies the seven eyes with the seven spirits; further symbolism is not inserted.
Reception: No passage-specific reception verified in this review.
Verse 5:7
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And He came and has taken it from the right hand of the One sitting upon the throne.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: The Greek moves from came to a perfect has taken. It supplies the scroll as the understood object without repeating its noun.
Reception: No passage-specific reception verified in this review.
Verse 5:8
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And when He took the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell before the Lamb, each having a lyre and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: Lyre renders kithara. The identification of the incense bowls with the saints’ prayers is stated by the source.
Reception: R029 (Victorinus tradition; scope 5:8–9).
Verse 5:9
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And they sing a new song, saying, “You are worthy to take the scroll and open its seals, because You were slaughtered and purchased for God in Your blood people from every tribe and tongue and people and nation,
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: There is no explicit us after purchased. People supplies the implied object drawn from the following tribes, tongues, peoples, and nations.
Reception: R029 (Victorinus tradition; scope 5:8–9).
Verse 5:10
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
and You made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they reign upon the earth.”
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: Them, a kingdom, and they reign are the accessed wording; the verb basileuousin is present, not future.
Reception: No passage-specific reception verified in this review.
Textual [G]: NA28 reads future βασιλεύσουσιν (SBLGNT present βασιλεύουσιν); the rendering above follows SBLGNT, and NA28 would read "they will reign upon the earth".
The worship of all creation
Verse 5:11
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And I saw, and heard a voice of many angels around the throne and the living creatures and the elders; and their number was myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands,
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: Myriads are groups of ten thousand. The repeated expression is preserved rather than converted into a computed total.
Reception: R030 (Victorinus tradition; scope 5:11–13).
Verse 5:12
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
saying with a loud voice, “Worthy is the Lamb who was slaughtered to receive the power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing.”
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: The slain Lamb receives a sevenfold acclamation. Power and strength remain separate terms rather than being merged into one attribute.
Reception: R030 (Victorinus tradition; scope 5:11–13).
Verse 5:13
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And every creature in heaven and upon the earth and beneath the earth and upon the sea, and all the things in them, I heard saying, “To the One sitting upon the throne and to the Lamb be the blessing and the honor and the glory and the dominion for the ages of the ages.”
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: The praise is addressed jointly to the enthroned One and the Lamb. The added sea completes the range of creation represented as speaking.
Reception: R030 (Victorinus tradition; scope 5:11–13); R092 (John Bunyan; scope 5:13).
Verse 5:14
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And the four living creatures were saying, “Amen.” And the elders fell and worshiped.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: The closing clause has no added explicit object such as Him who lives for the ages of the ages.
Reception: No passage-specific reception verified in this review.