1 A revelation of Jesus Christ,
that the God gave to Him, to show to His bondservants what is necessary to happen with suddenness;
and [that] He signified, having messaged through His angel to His slave John,
2 who witnessed the word of the God, and the witness of Jesus Christ—the [things] he saw.
3 Blessed [is] the [one] reading and the [ones] hearing the words of the prophecy and keeping the writings in it,
for the time [is] near.
4 Ioánnes, to the seven convocations in Asia:
Grace be to you, and peace, from the One who is, and who was, and who is coming, and from the seven Spirits that are before His throne,
5 and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first born from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the Earth.
To Him who loves us, and loosed us from the sins of ours by the blood of His,
6 and made us a kingdom and priests to the God and His Father,
to Him be the glory and the dominion, unto the ages of the ages, amen.
7 Look!
He comes with the clouds and every eye will see Him,
also they who pierced Him,
and they will beat themselves over Him—all the tribes of the earth; yes, amen.
8 "I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord, "The God, who is, and who was, and who is coming, the all-ruler."
9 I, John, the brother of yours, and sharer in the suffering and kingdom and patience of Jesus,
was on the island called Patmos due to the word of the God and the witness of Jesus.
10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice like a war-trumpet,
11 saying, "What you see write in a book and send to the seven churches,
to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamos, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea."