JOHN’S TESTIMONY John utilizes the ἀγοράζω, agorazō, word-group—commercial terminology of the marketplace—to teach the same truth: that redemptive deliverance entails a payment price. He reports that he heard the twenty-four elders in heaven singing before the Lamb: “You are worthy … because you were slain and bought [ἠγόρασας, ēgorasas] [men] for God with your blood” (Rev. 5:9). He heard the throngs of heaven singing later before the Lamb a new song, and he tells us that no one could learn