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1 (The) revelation of Jesus Christ, which [the] God gave him to show his slaves what ought to(=must) take place in speed(=soon). And he made (it) known through(=by) having sent of his angel(=sending His angel) to his slave John,
2 who(=John) testified (to) the word of God and (to) the testimony of Jesus Christ, (to) all that he saw.
3 Blessed (is) the one reading, and the ones hearing the words of the prophecy and keeping the things having been written in it, for the time (is) near.
4 John, To the seven churches in [the] Asia: Grace to you and peace from the One being and the One was and the One coming(=the One who is, and who was, and who is to come), and from the seven spirits which (are) before His throne,
5 and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings of the earth. To the one loving us and having freed us from our sins in(=by) his blood,
6 and who has made us a kingdom1, priests to his God and Father, to him (be) [the] glory and [the] might(=dominion) into the age of the ages(=for ever and ever). Amen.
7 Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even (those) having pierced him. And all tribes of the earth will mourn because of him. Even so, Amen.
8 “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “the One being and the One was and the One coming(=who is, and who was, and who is to come), the Almighty.”
9 I, John, your brother and companion in the tribulation and kingdom and endurance in Jesus, was in(=on) the island being called Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.
10 I was in (the) Spirit in(=on) the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a great(=loud) voice like a trumpet,
11 saying, “Write in a book what you see 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.”
12 And I turned to see the voice that was speaking with(=to) me. And having turned, I saw seven golden lampstands
13 and in (the) middle of the lampstands one like a Son of Man, having clothed to the feet(=with a garment down to the feet) and having been girded at(=about) the breasts(=chest) (with) a golden sash.
14 And his head and (his) hairs (were) white as white wool, (white) as snow, and his eyes (were) like a flame of fire,
15 and his feet (were) like burnished bronze, as if having been refined in a furnace, and his voice (was) as a sound of many waters.
16 And having(=he had) in his right hand seven stars, and a sharp double-edged sword coming(=came) from his mouth, and his face (was) as the sun shines in its power.
17 And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead, and he placed his right (hand) on me, saying, “Do not be afraid, I am the First and the Last”
18 “and the living one, and I was dead, and behold I am living(=alive) unto the ages of ages(=for ever and ever), and I have the keys of death and [the] Hades.”
19 “Write, therefore, the things which you have seen and the things which are and the things which are about to be(=will take place) after these things.”
20 “(As for) the mystery of the seven stars which you saw in my right (hand), and the seven golden lampstands, the seven stars are (the) angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.”
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“kings” in some manuscripts ↩