AND I saw, and lo, a lamb stood upon the mount Zion, and with him an hundred forty-four thousand, having the name of his Father inscribed on their foreheads.

and they sang as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four living beings, and the presbyters: and no person could learn that song, but the hundred forty-four thousand, who were redeemed from the earth.

He measured also the wall of it a hundred and forty-four cubits, according to the measure of a man, for such is that of an angel.

And I heard the number of those who were sealed; one hundred and forty and four thousand were sealed out of every tribe of the children of Israel.

And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he became hungry.

And he was in the wilderness forty days, tempted by Satan; and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministred unto him.