Even specific parallels with other Christian sources (e.g., Synoptic traditions, Paul’s teaching) are surprisingly minimal, especially at places where they might be expected to appear (see commentary at 19:11–21). Revelation is an explicitly Christian book and exalts God’s work in Jesus Christ from start to finish, but it is the Old Testament and its Jewish conceptions of God’s salvation and judgment now being fulfilled in Jesus that are central to John’s book as a whole. Since John does not signal