Revelation 17:6
And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
Cross-reference
Revelation 17:3 introduces the woman riding the beast; in 17:6 she is drunk on blood, completing the vision.
Revelation 6:9 shows souls of martyrs slain for God's word—the same blood that intoxicates the woman in Revelation 17:6.
Revelation 18:20-24 declares Babylon guilty of the blood of prophets and saints, matching the woman drunk with that blood in Revelation 17:6.
Revelation 16:6 pronounces judgment on those who shed saints' blood—the same blood that makes the woman drunk in Revelation 17:6.
Revelation 13:15 describes the beast slaying those who refuse its worship—the martyrs whose blood the woman drinks in Revelation 17:6.
Revelation 13:7 shows the beast making war on saints—the same saints whose blood intoxicates the woman in Revelation 17:6.
Revelation 12:11 identifies these same witnesses who overcame by the Lamb's blood and their testimony, whose blood the prostitute now drinks.
Revelation 18:24 explicitly states Babylon's guilt for the blood of saints, directly echoing the drunkenness on blood.
Revelation 6:11 shows the martyrs waiting for their fellow servants to be killed, whose blood the woman later drinks.
Revelation 7:14 presents the same martyrs washing their robes in the Lamb's blood, contrasting the world's drunkenness on their blood.
In Revelation 11:7, the beast kills the two witnesses, adding to the blood of saints the woman consumes.
Revelation 12:17 describes the dragon's war against the saints, whose blood the woman later becomes drunk on.
Revelation 14:8 announces Babylon's fall, the same woman whose blood-drinking is described here.
Revelation 2:13 mentions Antipas, a faithful martyr—the woman in Revelation 17:6 is drunk with the blood of such martyrs.
Daniel 7:25 prophesies the horn wearing out saints—fulfilled in the persecution that yields the blood intoxicating the woman in Revelation 17:6.
Daniel 7:21 prophesies a horn making war on saints—fulfilled in the beast's persecution that produces the martyrs whose blood the woman drinks.
Psalm 72:14 declares God treasures the blood of the oppressed — contrasting with the prostitute who drinks it callously.
In Acts 26:10, Paul recounts putting Christians to death — a direct example of the blood of saints.
In Matthew 23:37, Jesus laments Jerusalem killing prophets — the same pattern of shedding saints' blood.
In Matthew 14:11, John the Baptist's beheading exemplifies the blood of saints the woman is drunk on.
In Habakkuk 2:12, woe to one who builds a city with bloodshed — the exact condemnation applied to Babylon in Revelation.
In Ezekiel 24:6, Jerusalem is a city of bloodshed, a pot with filth — the same imagery of a blood-guilty city as Babylon.
Isaiah 59:7 describes those swift to shed innocent blood — the very crime of which the woman in Revelation is guilty.
Isaiah 49:26 speaks of oppressors being drunk on their own blood — directly paralleling the blood-drunk imagery of Revelation's woman.
Psalm 94:21 speaks of condemning the innocent to death — the same injustice that feeds the prostitute's bloodlust.
Psalm 79:3 laments blood poured out like water around Jerusalem — the same blood the prostitute is drunk on.
Psalm 44:22 says believers face death daily for God's sake — the same fate that fills the prostitute's cup in Revelation.
In Hebrews 12:4, readers have not yet shed blood — contrasting with the martyrs whose blood is drunk here.
Acts 22:20 recalls Paul present at Stephen's martyrdom — a specific instance of the saints' blood the prostitute is drunk with.