¹⁰I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a great sound like a trumpet ¹¹saying, “What you see, write in a book and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.”

¹²And I turned to see the voice which was speaking with me, and when I^* turned, I saw seven gold lampstands, ¹³and in the midst of the lampstands one like a son of man, dressed in a robe reaching to the feet and girded around his^* chest with a golden belt, ¹⁴and his head and hair were white like wool, white as snow, and his eyes were like a fiery flame, ¹⁵and his feet were like fine bronze when it has been fired in a furnace, and his voice was like the sound of many waters, ¹⁶and he had in his right hand seven stars, and a sharp double-edged sword coming out of his mouth, and his face was like the sun shining in its strength.

¹⁷And when I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead person, and he placed his right hand on me, saying, “Do not be afraid! I am the first and the last, ¹⁸and the one who lives, and I was dead, and behold, I am living forever and ever^c, and I hold the keys of death and of Hades. ¹⁹Therefore, write the things which you saw, and the things which are, and the things which are about to take place after these things. ²⁰As for the mystery of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand and the seven gold lampstands—the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.

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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 …”

Footnotes

*Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“turned”) which is understood as temporal
*Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
cLiterally “for the ages of the ages”