^{13 Ref} And answer did one of the elders, saying to me, `These, who have been arrayed with the white robes -- who are they, and whence came they?'

^{14 Ref} and I have said to him, `Sir, thou hast known;' and he said to me, `These are those who are coming out of the great tribulation, and they did wash their robes, and they made their robes white in the blood of the Lamb;