Revelation 1:9-11

International Children’s Bible

⁹ I am John, and I am your brother in Christ. We are together in Jesus, and we share in these things: in suffering, in the kingdom, and in patience. I was on the island of Patmos^[a] because I had preached God’s message and the truth about Jesus. ¹⁰ On the Lord’s day the Spirit took control of me. I heard a loud voice behind me that sounded like a trumpet. ¹¹ The voice said, “Write what you see and send that book to the seven churches: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.”