Revelation 22:2

22:2 flowing down the middle of the city’s main street. On each side of the river is the tree of life producing twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit every month of the year. Its leaves are for the healing of the nations.

Revelation 22:14

22:14 Blessed are those who wash their robes so they can have access to the tree of life and can enter into the city by the gates.


tn Grk “its”; the referent (the city, the new Jerusalem) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

tn The Greek word πλατεῖα (plateia) refers to a major (broad) street (L&N 1.103).

tn Grk “From here and from there.”

tn Or “twelve crops” (one for each month of the year).

tn The words “of the year” are implied.

tn Grk “so that there will be to them authority over the tree of life.”