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

11 which said: “Write on a scroll what you see(A) and send it to the seven churches:(B) to Ephesus,(C) Smyrna,(D) Pergamum,(E) Thyatira,(F) Sardis,(G) Philadelphia(H) and Laodicea.”(I)

12 I turned around to see the voice that was speaking to me. And when I turned I saw seven golden lampstands,(J) 13 and among the lampstands(K) was someone like a son of man,[a](L) dressed in a robe reaching down to his feet(M) and with a golden sash around his chest.(N)

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 1:13 See Daniel 7:13.