Revelation 5 · a question people ask
The elder says, "Behold, the Lion who is of the tribe of Judah" (5:5), and John sees "a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain" (5:6). How do the Lion and the Lamb fit together?
Here is what the chapter says. The elder tells John, "Don’t weep" (5:5), and speaks of "the Lion who is of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David", who "has overcome" (5:5). The next thing John tells is what he saw: "a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain" (5:6). The chapter sets the elder's words and what John sees side by side, and doesn't explain how they fit; these notes don't either. Words elsewhere in Revelation that sit close to 5:5 are quoted in Revelation beside itself.
The verses
“One of the elders said to me, “Don’t weep. Behold, the Lion who is of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome: he who opens the book and its seven seals.” I saw in the middle of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the middle of the elders, a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, sent out into all the earth.”