Revelation 1:11-13

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¹¹saying, “Write on a scroll what you see [in this revelation], and send it to the ^[a]seven churches—to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.”

¹²Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking with me. And after turning I saw seven golden lampstands; ¹³and in the midst of the lampstands I saw someone ^[b]like the Son of Man, dressed in a robe reaching to His feet, and with a golden sash wrapped around His chest.^(A)

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Footnotes

Revelation 1:11 These were actual churches in Asia Minor (now western Turkey), and in John’s time there would have been only one church body in each of the cities. They are mentioned in the order in which they would be visited by a messenger traveling northward on the imperial road from Ephesus to Laodicea.
Revelation 1:13 Or like a son of man. The phrase is a translation of a Hebrew idiom which refers to a man, and John could simply be describing his first impression. But since this proves to be a vision of Christ (v 18), John probably is referring to Him by the title that Jesus so often applied to Himself, a title originating in the Messianic prophecy of Daniel.