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Their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city where people killed their Lord on a cross.[a] This city should be called Sodom or Egypt, because it is as bad as those places.[b]

People from everywhere in the world will look at the servants' dead bodies for three and a half days. Those are people from every nation, from every tribe and from every language. They will not agree to bury the bodies. 10 The people who live on the earth will be very happy because the two servants of God are now dead. They will send gifts to each other because they are so happy. These two prophets of God had caused bad trouble for them, but now they have died.

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Footnotes

  1. 11:8 People killed Jesus Christ on a cross outside the city of Jerusalem in Israel. The leaders of Israel's people caused Jesus to die there. They refused to recognize him as Lord.
  2. 11:8 Sodom and Egypt were also places where the people did not obey God. See Genesis 18:20-21; 19:13,24-25 and Exodus 1:13-14.