^{8 Ref} I am the Alpha and the Omega, saith the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.

^{9 Ref} I John, your brother and partaker with you in tribulation and kingdom and patience `which are' in Jesus, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.

^{10 Ref} I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet

^{11 Ref} saying, What thou seest, write in a book and send `it' to the seven churches: unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamum, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.