Revelation 1:9-11

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

A Vision of Christ

⁹ I, John, your brother who share with you in Jesus the persecution and the kingdom and the patient endurance, was on the island called Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.^{[a] 10} I was in the spirit^[b] on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet ¹¹ saying, ‘Write in a book what you see and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus, to Smyrna, to Pergamum, to Thyatira, to Sardis, to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.’