Discovery BoxRevelation 11:3-10 
Context11:3 And I will grant my two witnesses authority 1 to prophesy for 1,260 days, dressed in sackcloth. 11:4 (These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth.) 2 11:5 If 3 anyone wants to harm them, fire comes out of their mouths 4 and completely consumes 5 their enemies. If 6 anyone wants to harm them, they must be killed this way. 11:6 These two have the power 7 to close up the sky so that it does not rain during the time 8 they are prophesying. They 9 have power 10 to turn the waters to blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague whenever they want. 11:7 When 11 they have completed their testimony, the beast that comes up from the abyss will make war on them and conquer 12 them and kill them. 11:8 Their 13 corpses will lie in the street 14 of the great city that is symbolically 15 called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was also crucified. 11:9 For three and a half days those from every 16 people, tribe, 17 nation, and language will look at their corpses, because they will not permit them to be placed in a tomb. 18 11:10 And those who live on the earth will rejoice over them and celebrate, even sending gifts to each other, because these two prophets had tormented those who live on the earth.
1 tn The word “authority” is not in the Greek text, but is implied. “Power” would be another alternative that could be supplied here.
2 sn This description is parenthetical in nature.
3 tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.
4 tn This is a collective singular in Greek.
5 tn See L&N 20.45 for the translation of κατεσθίω (katesqiw) as “to destroy utterly, to consume completely.”
6 tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.
7 tn Or “authority.”
8 tn Grk “the days.”
9 tn Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation. Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.
10 tn Or “authority.”
11 tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.
12 tn Or “be victorious over”; traditionally, “overcome.”
13 tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.
14 tn The Greek word πλατεῖα (plateia) refers to a major (broad) street (L&N 1.103).
15 tn Grk “spiritually.”
16 tn The word “every” is not in the Greek text, but is implied by the following list.
17 tn The Greek term καί (kai) has not been translated before this and the following items in the list, since English normally uses a coordinating conjunction only between the last two elements in a series of three or more.
18 tn Or “to be buried.”
