and his head and hairs white,
as if white as snow,
and his eyes as a flame of fire;
and in the midst of the seven
lamp-stands,one like to a son of man,
clothed to the foot, and girt around
at the breast with a golden girdle.
And I did turn to see the voice that did speak to me, and having turned, I saw seven golden lamp-stands,
I am the Alpha and the Omega,
the First and the Last; and
What thou dost see, write in a scroll,
and send to the seven assemblies
that are in Asia; to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamos, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodices.
I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day,
and I heard behind me a great voice,
as of a trumpet, saying,