“When the dragon saw that he was thrown down to the earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male child.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Revelation 12 contains 17 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.