12 And a second time I answered and said to him, “What are these ^jtwo branches of the olive trees, which are beside the two golden pipes from which the golden oil¹ is poured out?” 13 He said to me, ^x“Do you not know what these are?” I said, “No, my lord.” 14 Then he said, ^y“These are the two anointed ones² who stand by ^zthe Lord of the whole earth.”