Then ¹  one of the elders asked ²  me, “These dressed in long white robes – who are they and where have they come from?”

Blessed are those who wash their robes so they can have access ¹  to the tree of life and can enter into the city by the gates.

After these things I looked, and here was ¹  an enormous crowd that no one could count, made up of persons from every nation, tribe, ²  people, and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb dressed in long white robes, and with palm branches in their hands.

So ¹  I said to him, “My lord, you know the answer.” ²  Then ³  he said to me, “These are the ones who have come out of the great tribulation. They ⁴  have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb!