Discovery BoxRevelation 21:12-13 
Context21:12 It has 1 a massive, high wall 2 with twelve gates, 3 with twelve angels at the gates, and the names of the twelve tribes of the nation of Israel 4 are written on the gates. 5 21:13 There are 6 three gates on the east side, three gates on the north side, three gates on the south side and three gates on the west side. 7
Revelation 21:21
Context21:21 And the twelve gates are twelve pearls – each one of the gates is made from just one pearl! The 8 main street 9 of the city is pure gold, like transparent glass.
Revelation 21:25
Context21:25 Its gates will never be closed during the day 10 (and 11 there will be no night there). 12
1 tn Grk “jasper, having.” Here a new sentence was started in the translation.
2 tn Grk “a (city) wall great and high.”
3 tn On this term BDAG 897 s.v. πυλών 1 states, “gate, esp. of the large, impressive gateways at the entrance of temples and palaces…of the entrances of the heavenly Jerusalem…οἱ πυλῶνες αὐτῆς οὐ μὴ κλεισθῶσιν its entrances shall never be shut Rv 21:25; cp. vss. 12ab, 13abcd, 15, 21ab; 22:14.”
4 tn Grk “of the sons of Israel.” The translation “nation of Israel” is given in L&N 11.58.
5 tn Grk “on them”; the referent (the gates) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
6 tn The words “There are” have been supplied to make a complete English sentence. This is a continuation of the previous sentence, a lengthy and complicated one in Greek.
7 tn The word “side” has been supplied four times in this verse for clarity.
8 tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.
9 tn The Greek word πλατεῖα (plateia) refers to a major (broad) street (L&N 1.103).
10 tn On the translation “during the day” see BDAG 436 s.v. ἡμέρα 1.a, “But also, as in Thu. et al., of time within which someth. occurs, ἡμέρας during the day Rv 21:25.”
11 tn The Greek connective γάρ (gar) most often expresses some sort of causal connection. However, in this context there is no causal force to the second phrase; γάρ simply expresses continuation or connection. Because of this it has been translated as “and.” See BDAG 189-90 s.v. 2.
12 tn The clause has virtually the force of a parenthetical comment.
