Discovery BoxRevelation 3:9 
Context3:9 Listen! 1 I am going to make those people from the synagogue 2 of Satan – who say they are Jews yet 3 are not, but are lying – Look, I will make 4 them come and bow down 5 at your feet and acknowledge 6 that I have loved you.
Revelation 4:1
Context4:1 After these things I looked, and there was 7 a door standing open in heaven! 8 And the first voice I had heard speaking to me 9 like a trumpet 10 said: “Come up here so that 11 I can show you what must happen after these things.”
1 tn Grk “behold” (L&N 91.13).
2 sn See the note on synagogue in 2:9.
3 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “yet” to indicate the contrast between what these people claimed and what they were.
4 tn The verb here is ποιέω (poiew), but in this context it has virtually the same meaning as δίδωμι (didwmi) used at the beginning of the verse. Stylistic variation like this is typical of Johannine literature.
5 tn The verb here is προσκυνήσουσιν (proskunhsousin), normally used to refer to worship.
6 tn Or “and know,” “and recognize.”
7 tn Grk “and behold.” The Greek word ἰδού (idou) at the beginning of this statement has not been translated because it has no exact English equivalent here, but adds interest and emphasis (BDAG 468 s.v. 1).
8 tn Or “in the sky” (the same Greek word means both “heaven” and “sky”).
9 tn Grk “with me.” The translation “with me” implies that John was engaged in a dialogue with the one speaking to him (e.g., Jesus or an angel) when in reality it was a one-sided conversation, with John doing all the listening. For this reason, μετ᾿ ἐμοῦ (met’ emou, “with me”) was translated as “to me.”
10 sn The phrase speaking to me like a trumpet refers back to Rev 1:10.
11 tn The conjunction καί (kai), much like the vav-consecutive in Hebrew, appears to be introducing a final/purpose clause here rather than a coordinate clause.
