¹²I turned around to see the voice that was speaking to me. And when I turned I saw seven golden lampstands,^s ¹³and among the lampstands^t was someone like a son of man,^d^u dressed in a robe reaching down to his feet^v and with a golden sash around his chest.^w ¹⁴The hair on his head was white like wool, as white as snow, and his eyes were like blazing fire.^x ¹⁵His feet were like bronze glowing in a furnace,^y and his voice was like the sound of rushing waters.^z ¹⁶In his right hand he held seven stars,^a and coming out of his mouth was a sharp, double-edged sword.^b His face was like the sun^c shining in all its brilliance.

¹⁷When I saw him, I fell at his feet^d as though dead. Then he placed his right hand on me^e and said: “Do not be afraid.^f I am the First and the Last.^g ¹⁸I am the Living One; I was dead,^h and now look, I am alive for ever and ever!ⁱ And I hold the keys of death and Hades.^j

¹⁹“Write, therefore, what you have seen,^k what is now and what will take place later. ²⁰The mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand^l and of the seven golden lampstands^m is this: The seven stars are the angels^e of the seven churches,ⁿ and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.^o

Read in Logos

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

dSee Daniel 7:13.
eOr messengers

Cross references

sver 20; Ex 25:31–40; Zec 4:2; Rev 2:1
t Rev 2:1
u Eze 1:26; Da 7:13; 10:16; Rev 14:14
v Isa 6:1
w Da 10:5; Rev 15:6
x Da 7:9; 10:6; Rev 2:18; 19:12
y Eze 1:7; Da 10:6; Rev 2:18
z Eze 43:2; Rev 14:2; 19:6
aver 20; Rev 2:1; 3:1
b Isa 1:20; 49:2; Heb 4:12; Rev 2:12, 16; 19:15, 21
c Jdg 5:31; Mt 17:2
d Eze 1:28; Da 8:17, 18
e Da 8:18
fSee Mt 14:27
g Isa 41:4; 44:6; 48:12; Rev 2:8; 22:13
h Ro 6:9; Rev 2:8
i Dt 32:40; Da 4:34; 12:7; Rev 4:9, 10; 10:6; 15:7
j Rev 9:1; 20:1
kver 11; Hab 2:2
lSee ver 16
mSee ver 12
nver 4, 11
o Mt 5:14, 15