But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or even to look in it. I wept and wept because no one was found worthy to open[a] the scroll or even to look in it. Then one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep. Look, the Lion from the tribe of Judah,(A) the Root of David,(B) has conquered(C) so that he is able to open the scroll and[b] its seven seals.”

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