¹The revelation of Jesus the Anointed One, which God gave to him, to show to his bond-slaves what things it behooves to take place with speed; and he signified it, having sent it through his messenger to his slave John,

²who testified to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus the Anointed One, as much as he saw.

³Blessed is the one reading and those hearing the words of the prophecy and keeping the things written in it; for the appointed-time is near.

⁴John, to the seven assemblies that are in Asia: favor to you and wholeness from him who is and who was and who is coming, and from the seven Spirits who are before his throne,

⁵and from Jesus the Anointed One, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead and the ruler of the kings of the land. To the One loving us and having released us from our sins through his blood —

⁶and he has made us a kingdom, and priests to God and his Father — to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever, Amen.

⁷Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will behold him, and those who pierced him; and all the tribes of the land will wail because of him. Yes, Amen!

⁸I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, says the Lord God, who is and who was and who is coming, the Almighty.

⁹I myself, John, your brother and fellow-partaker in the tribulation and in the kingdom and in endurance in Jesus the Anointed One, was on the island which is called Patmos on account of the word of God and through the testimony of Jesus the Anointed One.

¹⁰I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like that of a trumpet,

¹¹saying, I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last; and what you see, write in a book and send to the seven assemblies that are in Asia: to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.

¹²And there I turned to see the voice that was speaking with me. And when I had turned, I saw seven golden lampstands,

¹³and in the midst of the seven lampstands One like the Son of Man, having clothed himself to the feet and having girded himself about at the breasts with a golden sash.

¹⁴And his head and the hairs are white as if wool, white as snow, and his eyes are like a flame of fire,

¹⁵and his feet are like fine bronze as refined in a furnace, and his voice is like the voice of many waters.

¹⁶And he is holding in his right hand seven stars, and out of his mouth a sharp two-edged sword is going forth, and his face is like the sun shining in its full strength.

¹⁷And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead, and he placed his right hand upon me, saying to me: Do not fear. I am the First and the Last,

¹⁸and the Living One; and I was dead, and behold, I am living forever and ever, Amen; and I have the keys of Death and of Hades.

¹⁹Therefore write the things that you have seen, and the things that are, and the things that are about to be after these,

²⁰the mystery of the seven stars which you saw on my right hand, and the seven golden lampstands: the seven stars are the messengers of the seven assemblies, and the lampstands that you saw, the seven, are the seven assemblies.