Discovery BoxRevelation 1:8 
Context1:8 “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” 1 says the Lord God – the one who is, and who was, and who is still to come – the All-Powerful! 2
Revelation 11:8
Context11:8 Their 3 corpses will lie in the street 4 of the great city that is symbolically 5 called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was also crucified.
Revelation 22:5
Context22:5 Night will be no more, and they will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, because the Lord God will shine on them, and they will reign forever and ever.
Revelation 22:20
Context22:20 The one who testifies to these things says, “Yes, I am coming soon!” Amen! Come, Lord Jesus!
1 tc The shorter reading “Omega” (ὦ, w) has superior ms evidence ({א1 A C 1611}) to the longer reading which includes “the beginning and the end” (ἀρχὴ καὶ τέλος or ἡ ἀρχὴ καὶ τὸ τέλος, arch kai telo" or Jh arch kai to telo"), found in א*,2 1854 2050 2329 2351 ÏA lat bo. There is little reason why a scribe would have deleted the words, but their clarifying value and the fact that they harmonize with 21:6 indicate that they are a secondary addition to the text.
2 tn On this word BDAG 755 s.v. παντοκράτωρ states, “the Almighty, All-Powerful, Omnipotent (One) only of God…(ὁ) κύριος ὁ θεὸς ὁ π. …Rv 1:8; 4:8; 11:17; 15:3; 16:7; 21:22.”
3 tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.
4 tn The Greek word πλατεῖα (plateia) refers to a major (broad) street (L&N 1.103).
5 tn Grk “spiritually.”
