Misinterpretations often mistake the great city for literal Babylon, Rome, or a modern metropolis like New York, overlooking the explicit reference to Christ's crucifixion which identifies Jerusalem; others treat Sodom and Egypt as geographical rather than symbolic descriptors of the city's moral decay and bondage, or apply the passage to historical events like the fall of Jerusalem in AD 70 without recognizing its prophetic apocalyptic context in Revelation's visionary framework.
Revelation of John 11:8
King James Version (1769)
8 And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.
Revelation 11:8 describes the site of the two witnesses' martyrdom as the great city spiritually labeled Sodom and Egypt, where the Lord was crucified, pinpointing Jerusalem as the location while highlighting its profound spiritual corruption and idolatry akin to ancient Sodom's immorality and Egypt's oppression, underscoring how even the holy city can embody enmity against God during end-times tribulation.