Revelation 1:9-20 - John's Vision Of The Son Of Man

⁹ I, John, who am also your brother and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the island called Patmos, for the sake of the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ. ¹⁰ I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard a great voice behind me, as of a trumpet, ¹¹ saying, What you see, write in a book, and send it to the seven congregations; to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamos, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.

¹² And I turned to see the voice which spoke to me, and being turned, I saw seven golden lamps; ¹³ and, in the midst of the seven lamps, one like a Son of Man, clothed in a long robe, and girded about the breasts with a golden girdle. ¹⁴ His head, even his hairs, were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire; ¹⁵ and his feet like fine brass, when glowing in a furnace; and his voice as the voice of many waters; ¹⁶ and he had in his right hand seven stars, and out of his mouth there went a sharp two-edged sword; and his countenance was as the sun, when he shines in his strength.

¹⁷ And when I saw him, I fell down at his feet, as dead; and he laid his right hand upon me, and said, Fear not; I am the First and the Last; ¹⁸ I am he who lives and was dead; and behold, I am living for ever and ever; and I have the keys of the unseen world, and of death. ¹⁹ Write the things which you see, even those which are, and the things which shall be hereafter. ²⁰ As to the hidden meaning of the seven stars, which you see in my right hand, and of the seven lamps of gold: the seven stars are messengers of the seven congregations; and the seven lamps which you see, are seven congregations.