And round about the high seat were four and twenty seats: and on them I saw four and twenty rulers seated, clothed in white robes; and on their heads crowns of gold.

And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and the four and twenty rulers went down on their faces before the Lamb, having every one an instrument of music, and gold vessels full of perfumes, which are the prayers of the saints.

And in those days Peter got up among the brothers (there were about one hundred and twenty of them), and said,

Again, let us not give way to the desires of the flesh, as some of them did, of whom twenty-three thousand came to their end in one day.