⁹I, John, your brother and your partner in tribulation and in the kingdom and patience in Christ Jesus, was in the island which is called Patmos, for the word of God and for the testimony of Jesus.

¹⁰I was in the spirit on the Lord’s day and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,

¹¹Saying: What thou seest, write in a book and send to the seven churches which are in Asia: to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamus and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.

¹²And I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks:

¹³And in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks, one like to the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the feet, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.

¹⁴And his head and his hairs were white as white wool and as snow. And his eyes were as a flame of fire:

¹⁵And his feet like unto fine brass, as in a burning furnace. And his voice as the sound of many waters.

¹⁶And he had in his right hand seven stars. And from his mouth came out a sharp two-edged sword. And his face was as the sun shineth in his power.

¹⁷And when I had seen him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying: Fear not. I am the First and the Last,

¹⁸And alive, and was dead. And behold I am living for ever and ever and have the keys of death and of hell.

¹⁹Write therefore the things which thou hast seen: and which are: and which must be done hereafter.

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Revelation 1:17: When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he laid his right hand on me, saying, “Fear not, I am the first and the last …”

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