Vision of the Son of Man

⁹I, John, your brother and zpartner in athe tribulation and bthe kingdom and cthe patient endurance that are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos don account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus. ¹⁰eI was in the Spirit fon the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a loud voice glike a trumpet ¹¹saying, h“Write what you see 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.”

¹²Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking to me, and on turning I saw iseven golden lampstands, ¹³and in the midst of the lampstands jone like ka son of man, lclothed with a long robe and mwith a golden sash around his chest. ¹⁴nThe hairs of his head were white, like white wool, like snow. oHis eyes were like a flame of fire, ¹⁵phis feet were like burnished bronze, refined in a furnace, and qhis voice was like the roar of many waters. ¹⁶rIn his right hand he held seven stars, sfrom his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword, and this face was like the sun shining uin full strength.

¹⁷vWhen I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But vhe laid his right hand on me, wsaying, “Fear not, xI am the first and the last, ¹⁸and the living one. yI died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and zI have the keys of Death and Hades. ¹⁹aWrite therefore bthe things that you have seen, those that are and those that are to take place after this. ²⁰As for the mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand, and cthe seven golden lampstands, the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and dthe seven lampstands are the seven churches.

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