Revelation 1:9–19

⁹I, John, who also am your brother, and fellow-partner in the tribulation, and in the reign and endurance, of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, because of the word of God, and because of the testimony of Jesus Christ; ¹⁰I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s-day, and I heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, saying, ¹¹‘I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last;’ and, ‘What thou dost see, write in a scroll, and send to the seven assemblies that are in Asia; to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamos, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.’ ¹²And I did turn to see the voice that did speak with me, and having turned, I saw seven golden lamp-stands, ¹³and in the midst of the seven lamp-stands, one like to a son of man, clothed to the foot, and girt round at the breast with a golden girdle, ¹⁴and his head and hairs white, as if white wool—as snow, and his eyes as a flame of fire; ¹⁵and his feet like to fine brass, as in a furnace having been fired, and his voice as a sound of many waters, ¹⁶and having in his right hand seven stars, and out of his mouth a sharp two-edged sword is proceeding, and his countenance is as the sun shining in its might. ¹⁷And when I saw him, I did fall at his feet as dead, and he placed his right hand upon me, saying to me, ‘Be not afraid; I am the First and the Last, ¹⁸and he who is living, and I did become dead, and, lo, I am living to the ages of the ages. Amen! and I have the keys of the hades and of the death.

¹⁹‘Write the things that thou hast seen, and the things that are, and the things that are about to come after these things;