19 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

This verse quotes or alludes to 1 earlier text.

• Ezek 40:2 · allusion
  "In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set me upon a very high mountain, by which was as the frame of a city on the south."
  Ezekiel: brought to a high mountain to see the city — new Jerusalem

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

• Heaven
• Kingdom of God
• New Creation

• Vision of the New Jerusalem

5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

• 1Kgs 18:12 — And it shall come to pass, as soon as I am gone from thee, that the Spirit of the LORD shall carry thee whither I know not; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he shall slay me:
• 2Cor 12:2 — I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
• Acts 8:39 — And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more: and he went on his way rejoicing.
• Deut 34:1 — And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And the LORD shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan,
• Eph 5:27 — That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
• Ezek 3:14 — So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the LORD was strong upon me.
• Ezek 8:3 — And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door o
• Ezek 11:1 — Moreover the spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the east gate of the LORD’s house, which looketh eastward: and behold at the door of the gate five and twenty men; among whom I saw Jaazaniah the
• Ezek 11:24 — Afterwards the spirit took me up, and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity. So the vision that I had seen went up from me.
• Ezek 40:1 — In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in the selfsame day the hand of th
• Ezra 3:11 — And they sang together by course in praising and giving thanks unto the LORD; because he is good, for his mercy endureth for ever toward Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout, when the
• Gal 4:26 — But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
• Heb 11:10 — For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
• Heb 12:22 — But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
• Isa 2:2 — And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unt
• Isa 49:16 — Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.
• Jer 31:4 — Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry.
• Matt 5:35 — Nor by the earth; for it is his footstool: neither by Jerusalem; for it is the city of the great King.
• Phil 3:20 — For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
• Ps 46:4 — There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.
• Ps 48:1 — Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.
• Ps 87:3 — Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.
• Ps 122:3 — Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together:
• Rev 1:10 — I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,
• Rev 1:10 — I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,
• Rev 3:12 — Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem,
• Rev 4:2 — And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne.
• Rev 4:2 — And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne.
• Rev 17:3 — So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
• Rev 17:3 — So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
• Rev 21:2 — And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
• Rev 21:2 — And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
• Zech 2:5 — For I, saith the LORD, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her.