Revelation 7:13
Good News Translation
One of the elders asked me, "Who are these people dressed in white robes, and where do they come from?"

New Revised Standard Version
Then one of the elders addressed me, saying, “Who are these, robed in white, and where have they come from?”

Contemporary English Version
One of the elders asked me, "Do you know who these people are that are dressed in white robes? Do you know where they come from?"

New American Bible
Then one of the elders spoke up and said to me, “Who are these wearing white robes, and where did they come from?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And one of the ancients answered and said to me: These that are clothed in white robes, who are they? And whence came they?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And one of the ancients answered and said to me: These that are clothed in white robes, who are they? And whence came they?

one.

Revelation 4:4,10 And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats, four and twenty ancients sitting, clothed in white garments. And on their heads were crowns of gold. . . .

Revelation 5:5,11 And one of the ancients said to me: Weep not: behold the lion of the tribe of Juda, the root of David, hath prevailed to open the book and to loose the seven seals thereof. . . .

arrayed.

Revelation 7:9 After this, I saw a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations and tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and in sight of the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands.

whence.

Genesis 16:8 He said to her: Agar, handmaid of Sarai, whence comest thou? and whither goest thou? And she answered: I flee from the face of Sarai, my mistress.

Judges 13:6 And when she was come to her husband, she said to him: A man of God came to me, having the countenance of an angel, very awful. And when I asked him whence he came, and by what name he was called, he would not tell me:

John 7:28 Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying: You both know me, and you know whence I am. And I am not come of myself: but he that sent me is true, whom you know not.

Context
Praise from the Great Multitude
12Saying: Amen. Benediction and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving, honour and power and strength, to our God, for ever and ever. Amen. 13And one of the ancients answered and said to me: These that are clothed in white robes, who are they? And whence came they? 14And I said to him: My Lord, thou knowest. And he said to me: These are they who are come out of great tribulation and have washed their robes and have made them white in the blood of the Lamb.…
Cross References
Daniel 7:16
I went near to one of them that stood by, and asked the truth of him concerning all these things, and he told me the interpretation of the words, and instructed me:

Acts 3:12
But Peter seeing, made answer to the people: Ye men of Israel, why wonder you at this? Or why look you upon us, as if by our strength or power we had made this man to walk?

Revelation 3:4
But thou hast a few names in Sardis which have not defiled their garments: and they shall walk with me in white, because they are worthy.

Revelation 7:9
After this, I saw a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations and tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and in sight of the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands.

Revelation 7:12
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