Revelation 1:1-3

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

Introduction and Salutation

1 The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his servants^[a] what must soon take place; he made^[b] it known by sending his angel to his servant^[c] John, ² who testified to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw.

³ Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of the prophecy, and blessed are those who hear and who keep what is written in it; for the time is near.