Revelation 1:11
saying, “What you see, write in a book and send to the seven assemblies: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.”
World English Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
10I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, like a trumpet
12I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. Having turned, I saw seven golden lamp stands.
Cross References
Isaiah 30:8Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come forever and ever.
Habakkuk 2:2The LORD answered me, “Write the vision, and make it plain on tablets, that he who runs may read it.
Acts 18:24Now a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by race, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus. He was mighty in the Scriptures.
Acts 20:17From Miletus he sent to Ephesus and called to himself the elders of the assembly.
1 Corinthians 16:8But I will stay at Ephesus until Pentecost,
Colossians 4:15Greet the brothers who are in Laodicea, with Nymphas and the assembly that is in his house.
Matthew Henry on Revelation 1:10-20
John's Vision of Christ. ( a. d. 95.) 9 I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ. 10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, 11 Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto… Read the whole commentary →