Revelation 14

The Lamb and the 144,000

1 Then I looked, and there was the Lamb, standing on Mount Zion,  * 14:1 Is 18:7; 24:23; Mc 4:7 and with him were 144,000 who had his name and his Father’s name written on their foreheads.  * 14:1 Dt 6:8; Ezk 9:4; Rv 3:12; 7:3; 9:4; 13:16; 22:42 I heard a sound  * 14:2 Or voice from heaven like the sound of cascading waters  * 14:2 Ezk 1:24; 43:2; Rv 1:15; 19:6 and like the rumbling of loud thunder. The sound I heard was like harpists playing on their harps.  * 14:2 Rv 5:83 They sang  * 14:3 Other mss add as it were a new song  * 14:3 Rv 5:9 before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders,  * 14:3 Rv 4:4,6 but no one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth. 4 These are the ones who have not defiled themselves with women, since they remained virgins.  * 14:4 1Sm 21:4–5 These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They were redeemed  * 14:4 Other mss add by Jesus from humanity as the firstfruits  * 14:4 Dt 21:17; Jr 2:3; Jms 1:18 for God and the Lamb. 5 No lie was found in their mouths; they are blameless.  * 14:5 Zph 3:13; Jn 1:47