9I, John, your brother and fellow participant in the pressure and the kingdom and the perseverance in Jesus, came to be on the island called Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.10I came to be in spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a great voice like a trumpet.11saying, 'What you see, write in a scroll and send it to the seven assemblies: to Ephesus, to Smyrna, to Pergamum, to Thyatira, to Sardis, to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.'12And I turned to see the voice that was speaking with me. When I turned, I saw seven golden lampstands.13And in the midst of the lampstands one like a son of man clothed in a floor-length robe and girded around the chest with a golden belt.14His head and his hair were white like white wool, like snow, and his eyes were like a flame of fire.15His feet were like burnished bronze as in a furnace refined, and his voice was like the voice of many waters.16And he had in his right hand seven stars, and out of his mouth came a sharp double-edged sword, and his face was like the sun shining in its power.17When I saw him I fell at his feet as though dead, but he placed his right hand on me and said, 'Do not be afraid. I am the first and the last.'18And the living one: I came to be dead, and behold, I am living into the ages of the ages, and I have the keys of death and of Hades.19Therefore write what you have seen, what is, and what is to take place after these things.20The mystery of the seven stars that you saw upon my right hand and of the seven golden lampstands: the seven stars are angels of the seven assemblies, and the seven lampstands are seven assemblies.