11 saying, “What you see, write in a book 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 which was speaking with me, and when I[a] turned, I saw seven gold lampstands, 13 and in the midst of the lampstands one like a son of man, dressed in a robe reaching to the feet and girded around his[b] chest with a golden belt,

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 1:12 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“turned”) which is understood as temporal
  2. Revelation 1:13 Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun