Revelation 11:8

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

And their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city [Note: See the following passages on this “great city,” 14:8; 16:19; 17:5,18; 18:2, 10, 16, 18, 19, and 21] where the Lord was crucified, which is spiritually called Sodom, or Egypt.

Cross References

Matthew 10:15

It is true when I say to you, the districts around Sodom and Gomorrah [i.e., despite their gross sins] will be shown more leniency than that town on the Day of Judgment.

Acts 9:4

He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?”

Hebrews 13:12

Therefore, Jesus also suffered outside of the gate [i.e., of Jerusalem] so that He could make people holy through [the shedding of] His own blood.

Hebrews 6:6

and then have [completely] fallen away [from God], to repent again. [It is] because they [continue to] crucify for themselves God’s Son all over again, and hold Him up to contempt.

2 Peter 2:6

and if God also condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by reducing them to ashes, thereby condemning them to catastrophic destruction, and making them an example to other ungodly people in the future;

Jude 1:7

So also, in a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah, and their surrounding towns, which had abandoned themselves to sexual immorality and [sexually] perverted behavior, serve as an example [of people] who [will] suffer the punishment of never ending fire.

Revelation 11:13

At that very hour a severe earthquake occurred and one tenth of the city [See verse 8] was destroyed; and seven thousand persons were killed by the earthquake; and everyone else was terrified and gave honor to the God of heaven.

Revelation 11:9

And people from among the races and tribes and language groups and nations will gaze at their dead bodies for three and a half days, and they will not permit their bodies to be buried.

Revelation 14:20

Then the [grapes in the] winepress were trampled on outside of the city and blood flowed out of the winepress as deep as the horses’ bridles for a distance of one hundred and eighty-four [square] miles.

Revelation 14:8

Then [I saw] a second angel following [him]. He said, “Fallen! Great Babylon has fallen. She has forced all the nations to drink the wine of her passionate sexual immorality [Note: The word “passionate” here could also mean “angry”].”

Revelation 16:19

And the great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations were destroyed. And God remembered the great Babylon and made her drink from the cup of wine of His fierce anger.

Revelation 17:1

Then one of the seven angels, who had the seven bowls, came and spoke to me, saying, “Come [here]; I will show you the punishment [to fall] on the great prostitute who is situated on many bodies of waters.

Revelation 17:18

And the woman you saw is the great city that rules over the kings of the earth.”

Revelation 17:5

And on her forehead was written a mysterious [name], “The great Babylon, the mother of the prostitutes and the disgusting things of the earth.”

Revelation 18:10

They will stand far away, out of fear over her torment [Note: They will keep their distance for fear of becoming involved in the torment themselves], saying, ‘It is too bad for the great, strong city of Babylon! Your judgment has come in a single hour.’

Revelation 18:18

and called out as they watched the smoke of the burning [city], ‘What city was ever as great as this one?’

Revelation 18:2

And he called out with a loud voice, saying, “Fallen! The great Babylon has fallen, and has become a place where demons live, and a haunt for every evil spirit and every filthy and obnoxious bird {Some ancient manuscripts add the following phrase}“and every filthy and obnoxious animal”.

Revelation 18:21

Then a mighty angel picked up a rock the size of a huge millstone and threw it into the ocean, saying, “This is how the great city of Babylon will be violently thrown down and will never be found again.

Revelation 18:24

And the blood of the prophets and the saints and all [others] who were killed on earth was found in her.”