The source of this water is the very focal point of the entire vast city (cf. 21:16) as well as its surrounding renewed earth, that is, “the throne” on which both God and the Lamb were seated among their redeemed people (v. 1b).5 John has already specified that no temple like the former earthly or heavenly one was found in the city because God himself and the Lamb are its temple (21:22), but here (and in v. 3) he makes clear that the new Jerusalem has a divine throne presumably in its center (as