\subsection{Revelation 1}
\VS{1} [The] revelation of Jesus the Anointed\fnChristos{} [One], which God gave to him, to show to his slaves 
what [things] must swiftly come to pass, and he communicated [it], having sent [it] through his angel to his slave John, 
\VS{2} who testified of the word of God and 
the testimony of Jesus the Anointed\fnChristos{} [One], as much as he saw. 
\VS{3} Blessed [is] the [one] 
reading and those hearing the words of [this] prophecy and keeping the [things] written in it, for the opportune-time\fnKairos{} [is] near. 
\VS{4} John to the seven assemblies\fnEkklhsia{} in Asia: 
grace to you and peace from the [one who] is and [who] was and [who] comes, and from the seven spirits which [are] before his throne, 
\VS{5} and from Jesus the Anointed\fnChristos{} [One], the 
trustworthy witness, the first-born of the dead and the ruler of the 
kingdoms of the land. To the [one] agape-loving us and having washed us from our 
sins in his blood, 
\VS{6} and [who] made us kings, priests to his God and father, 
to him [be] the glory and the strength to the eternity of eternities, Amen.

\VS{7} Behold he comes with the clouds, and every eye will see him, and 
those who pierced him, and all the tribes of the land will mourn upon him, 
yes, Amen. 
\VS{8} I am the ``A'' and the ``Z''\footnote{literally ``the Alpha and 
the Omega'' --- the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet}, says the 
Lord God, the [one who] is and [who] was and [who] comes, the almighty.

\VS{9} I John, your brother and partner in the distress and kingdom and 
endurance of Jesus, came to be in the island called Patmos because of the 
word of God and the testimony of Jesus. 
\VS{10} I came to be in [the] spirit on 
the Lord's day, and I heard behind me [a] great voice as [a] trumpet 
\VS{11} saying: What you see, write in [a] scroll and send [it] to the seven
assemblies\fnEkklhsia{} in Ephesus and in Smyrna and in Pergamon and in Thyatira and 
in Sardis and in Philadelphia and in Laodecia. 
\VS{12} And I turned to be seeing the voice 
which spoke with me, and having turned I saw seven golden lampstands, 
\VS{13} and in the midst of the lampstands [one] like [the] son of man, clothed to 
[his] feet and girded around the breasts with [a] golden girdle. 
\VS{14} And his 
head and his hair [were] white as wool, white as snow, and his eyes [were] as [a] flame of fire, 
\VS{15} and his feet like fine-brass as fired in a furnace, and his 
voice [was] as the voice of many waters, 
\VS{16} and [he was] having in [his] right hand seven 
stars, and from his mouth [was] proceeding [a] sharp two-edged broad-sword, and his 
face shines as the sun in its power. 
\VS{17} And when I saw him, I fell 
before his feet as dead, and he placed his right hand upon me saying: Be not 
fearing, I am the first and the last, 
\VS{18} and the zoe-living\fnZoe{}, and I became 
dead and behold I am zoe-living\fnZoe{} to the eternity of eternities, and I have the 
keys of death and of Hades\fnHades{}. 
\VS{19} Write therefore what you saw and what is 
and what is [about] to come to pass after these [things]. 
\VS{20} The mystery of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand, 
and the seven lampstands of gold: The seven stars are [the] angels of the seven
assemblies\fnEkklhsia{}, and the lampstands are the seven churches.
