^{1 Ref} After these things I saw, and behold, a door opened in heaven, and the first voice that I heard, `a voice' as of a trumpet speaking with me, one saying, Come up hither, and I will show thee the things which must come to pass hereafter.

^{2 Ref} Straightway I was in the Spirit: and behold, there was a throne set in heaven, and one sitting upon the throne;

^{3 Ref} and he that sat `was' to look upon like a jasper stone and a sardius: and `there was' a rainbow round about the throne, like an emerald to look upon.