013:012 And the authority of the first Wild Beast--the whole of
that authority--he exercises in his presence, and he causes
the earth and its inhabitants to worship the first Wild Beast,
whose mortal wound had been healed.
013:013 He also works great miracles, so as even to make fire come
down from Heaven to earth in the presence of human beings.
013:014 And his power of leading astray the inhabitants of the earth
is due to the marvels which he has been permitted to work
in the presence of the Wild Beast. And he told the inhabitants
of the earth to erect a statue to the Wild Beast who had
received the sword-stroke and yet had recovered.
013:015 And power was granted him to give breath to the statue
of the Wild Beast, so that the statue of the Wild Beast
could even speak and cause all who refuse to worship it
to be put to death.
013:016 And he causes all, small and great, rich and poor, free men
and slaves, to have stamped upon them a mark on their right
hands or on their foreheads,
013:017 in order that no one should be allowed to buy or sell unless
he had the mark--either the name of the Wild Beast or the number
which his name represents.
013:018 Here is scope for ingenuity. Let people of shrewd intelligence
calculate the number of the Wild Beast; for it indicates
a certain man, and his number is 666.
014:001 Then I looked, and I saw the Lamb standing upon Mount Zion,
and with Him 144,000 people, having His name and His Father's
name written on their foreheads.
014:002 And I heard music from Heaven which resembled the sound of many
waters and the roar of loud thunder; and the music which I
heard was like that of harpists playing upon their harps.