“Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.”
John, the witness who bears testimony to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ — bearing witness (martys) is his commission, and he testifies both to God's word and to Jesus's testimony about himself. The dual witness structure echoes the legal requirement of two witnesses in Deuteronomy 19:15 and prefigures the role of testimony throughout Revelation, where faithful witness often requires suffering.
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