New Testament · Revelation

Revelation 1

Prologue

(Daniel 12:1–13)

1The unveiling^a of Yeshua Messiah, which God gave Him to show His servants what must happen soon, and He signified it by sending it through His angel to His servant John, 2who bore witness to the word^b of God and to the testimony of Yeshua Messiah — everything he saw.

3Blessed is the one who reads aloud and those who hear the words of this prophecy and keep what is written in it, for the appointed time is near.^c

John Greets the Seven Ekklesias

4John to the seven ekklesia in Asia: grace^e to you and peace^f from God who is and who was and who is coming, and from the seven spirits^g that are before His throne,^d 5and from Yeshua Messiah, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth — to Him who loves^h us and has washed us from our sins by His blood 6and has made us a kingdom, priests to God and His Father — to Him be gloryⁱ and dominion^j forever and ever. Amen.

7Look, He is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see Him, even those who pierced Him, and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over Him — yes, amen.

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

John’s Vision on Patmos

9I, John, your brother and one sharing together in the suffering and kingdom and steadfast endurance in Messiah Yeshua, came to be on the island called Patmos on account of the word of God and on account of the testimony of Yeshua Messiah.^k 10I came to be in the spirit^l on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a great voice like a trumpet, 11saying, "What you see, write in a scroll^m and send it to the seven ekklesia: to Ephesus, to Smyrna, to Pergamum, to Thyatira, to Sardis, to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea."

12And I turned to see the voice that was speaking with me, and having turned I saw seven golden lampstands, 13and in the midst of the seven lampstands one like a son of man, clothed in a robe reaching to the feet and girded around the chest with a golden belt. 14His head and hair were white as white wool, white as snow, and His eyes were like a flame of fire, 15and His feet were like burnished bronze, as if refined in a furnace, and His voice was like the sound of many waters.ⁿ 16In His right hand He held seven stars, and out of His mouth a sharp double-edged sword was coming out, and His face was like the sun shining in its power^o.

17When I saw Him I fell at His feet as though dead, and He placed His right hand on me saying, "Do not be afraid; I am the First and the Last, 18and the Living One — I became dead, and behold, I am alive forever and ever. Amen. And I hold the keys of death and of Hades.^p

19So write what you saw, and what is, and what is about to happen after these things. 20The mystery^q of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand and the seven golden lampstands: the seven stars are the angels of the seven ekklesia, and the seven lampstands are seven ekklesia.