9 I, John, both your brother and companion in the tribulation and kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was on the isle that is called Patmos on account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ.
10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day, and I heard behind me a great voice like a trumpet,
11 saying, “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last,” and “What you see, write in a book, and send it to the seven churches which are in Asia: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.”
12 I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. And when I turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks,
13 and in the midst of the seven candlesticks was one like a Son of Man, clothed with a garment down to the feet and with a golden sash wrapped around the chest.
14 The hair on His head was white like wool, as white as snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire.
15 His feet were like fine brass, as if refined in a furnace, and His voice as the sound of many waters.