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Revelation 7:14
ESV I said to him, "Sir, you know." And he said to me, "These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
NIV I answered, "Sir, you know." And he said, "These are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
NASB I said to him, 'My lord, you know.' And he said to me, 'These are the ones who come out of the great tribulation, and they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
CSB I said to him, "Sir, you know." Then he told me: These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
NLT And I said to him, 'Sir, you are the one who knows.' Then he said to me, 'These are the ones who died in the great tribulation. They have washed their robes in the blood of the Lamb and made them white.
KJV And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
NKJV And I said to him, “Sir, you know.” So he said to me, “These are the ones who come out of the great tribulation, and washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

What does Revelation 7:14 mean?

In the prior verse, an unnamed elder asks John to name the people he sees. The purpose of this is not to gain information, but to prompt a response from John. According to this verse, John answered the elder wisely. He did not know the identity of the white-robed multitude. So, he simply said, "Sir, you know." Although John accompanied Jesus for three years as a disciple and listened to Jesus' teachings, he did not know everything. Nor can believers today know everything. However, we are accountable for what we do know (Luke 12:48).

The elder informed John that the multitude was coming out of the great tribulation and had been washed in the blood of the Lamb. Jesus had described the time before His coming to earth to reign. He said it would be a time of famines, religious deception, international warfare, afflictions and death, stellar and global catastrophes, and persecution (Matthew 24). He also promised that "the one who endures to the end will be saved (Matthew 24:13). All who belong to the white-robed multitude had endured the perils of the tribulation and had come through them safely.
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