58One of the twenty-four elders asked me [John] this question.

     "Where did these people come from that are dressed in white robes?"

           And so I replied to him. "Sir, you are the one who really knows."

                Then he responded, "These are the ones that died and came out of the great tribulation. These all have washed their clothing in the blood of the Lamb and their sin was made white as the new driven snow."