6 Bible Verses about John's View Of Inspiration

We have heard that which was from the beginning. We have also seen it with our own eyes. We looked at it and touched it with our hands. It is the Word of life. The life was made known and we have seen and testify about it. We declare the life to you. It is the eternal life, which was with the Father and was shown to us. We declare to you what we have seen and heard. This way you may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ!read more.
We write these things that our joy may be made full (complete). This is the message we heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

THE REVELATION GOD GAVE TO JESUS CHRIST, so that he could tell his servants the things that must soon take place. Christ then sent his angel to communicate the symbolic message to his servant John. John testified to the word of God, the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all that he saw. Happy is he who reads, and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and obey the things written in it: for the time is near.

He said to me: Write: Blessed are they who are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb. He said to me: These are the true sayings of God. I fell at his feet to worship him. But he said to me: Do not do that. I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers. You have the witness from Jesus: worship God! For the witness from Jesus is the spirit (mind-set) of prophecy.

Then he said to me: These sayings are faithful and true. Jehovah the God of the holy prophets sent his angel to show his servants the things that must shortly be done. Behold, I come quickly. Blessed is he who obeys the words of the prophecy of this book. I John saw these things and heard them. When I heard and saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel who showed me these things.

I was in the Spirit on the Lord's Day when I heard a strong voice behind me. It sounded like a trumpet. It said: Write what you see in a book and send it to the seven congregations in Asia: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.

When I saw him, I fell as dead at his feet. He laid his right hand on me and said: Do not fear. I am the first and the last: I am alive! I was dead and, behold, I am alive forever, Amen. I have the keys of death and the grave.