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Revelation 19:13 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 13. 13And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
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Quick Meaning
This verse shows a blood-dipped robe before the battle and names him the Word of God.
Read It With
- Revelation 19:11-16
Read Revelation 19:13 with 19:11-16. This verse shows a blood-dipped robe before the battle and names him the Word of God. The complete unit's controlling movement is: Heaven opens to a faithful-and-true rider with hidden name, blood-dipped robe, heavenly followers, mouth-sword, iron rule, winepress, and supreme royal title.
Why This Verse Appears Here
The preceding movement establishes: Revelation 19:1-10 established this prior movement: Heavenly worship answers Babylon's fall, celebrates God's reign and the Lamb's marriage, identifies the bride's linen with granted righteous deeds, blesses the invited, and redirects John's attempted angel worship to God. This unit then contributes: Heaven opens to a faithful-and-true rider with hidden name, blood-dipped robe, heavenly followers, mouth-sword, iron rule, winepress, and supreme royal title. The following movement develops: Revelation 19:17-21 continues the book through this next movement: Birds are summoned to a battlefield feast; beast, false prophet, kings, and armies gather, the deceivers are captured for the fire lake, and the mouth-sword defeats the remainder. At Revelation 19:13, this verse shows a blood-dipped robe before the battle and names him the Word of God.
Follow the Context
- The rider's appearance and accumulated names and images form one portrait before the battlefield feast is announced.
- Heaven opens to a faithful-and-true rider with hidden name, blood-dipped robe, heavenly followers, mouth-sword, iron rule, winepress, and supreme royal title.
- The blood on the robe appears before the battle and may be the rider's sacrificial blood, enemies' blood, or proleptic judgment. Isaiah 11, 63 and Psalm 2 converge; the sword comes from his mouth.
What This Verse Is Not Saying
Revelation 19:13 does not turn the fact that it shows a blood-dipped robe before the battle and names him the Word of God into a standalone universal rule.
What Remains True
Revelation 19:13 shows that shows a blood-dipped robe before the battle and names him the Word of God; its faithful force remains governed by creator worship, the slain Lamb, truthful witness, patient endurance, justice, and new creation.
How It Can Shape Life
- Use Revelation 19:13 by attending to its actual contribution: it shows a blood-dipped robe before the battle and names him the Word of God. Before a modern analogy, explain this role inside Revelation 19:11-16, state the unit's uncertainty or first-century control, and refuse unsupported mapping or coercive imitation.
Teach It Back
Explain Revelation 19:13's specific contribution to Revelation 19:11-16: shows a blood-dipped robe before the battle and names him the Word of God. Include the surrounding movement, one material uncertainty, and what the verse does not authorize.
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Read Revelation 19:11-16 — The Faithful Rider Judges with a Mouth-SwordSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? probable
Where care is needed
The package keeps the leading alternatives visible and weights them by textual, historical, literary, and reception evidence rather than pretending every proposal is equally strong. The blood on the robe appears before the battle and may be the rider's sacrificial blood, enemies' blood, or proleptic judgment. Isaiah 11, 63 and Psalm 2 converge; the sword comes from his mouth.
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph markers, supplied-word markup, and complete coverage.
Exact location: Revelation 19:11-16, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗Greek textual evidence
The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition
Michael W. Holmes, editor; Society of Biblical Literature and Logos
Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, 2010
Supports: Greek wording and sentence relations checked independently of the KJV.
Exact location: Faithlife SBLGNT official repository, data/sblgnt/text/Revelation.txt, 19:11-16
Open the Revelation Greek text file ↗Translation and textual notes
NET Bible — Revelation with translators' and textual notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2005–2026 online edition
Supports: Verse-level translation, syntax, textual variants, imagery, cross-references, and stated alternatives.
Exact location: NET Bible Revelation PDF, printed pp. 2408–2447, 19:11-16 and attached translator/textual notes
Open the official NET Revelation PDF ↗