Revelation 1:1 Cross References - Moffatt

¹ A revelation by Jesus Christ, which God granted him for his servants, to show them what must come to pass very soon; he disclosed it by sending it through his angel to his servant John,

³² He] is testifying to what he has seen and heard, and yet no one accepts his testimony.

²⁶ I have a great deal to say about you and many a judgment to pass upon you; but he who sent me is true, and so I tell the world what I have learned from him."

⁴⁹ for I have not spoken of my own accord — the Father who sent me, he it was who ordered me what to say and what to speak.

¹⁵ I call you servants no longer, because a servant does not know what his master is doing: I call you friends, because I have imparted to you all that I have learned from my Father.

⁸ for I have given them the words thou gavest me, and they have received them; they are now sure that I came from thee and believe that thou didst send me.

²⁵ [Now to Him who can strengthen you by my gospel, by the preaching of Jesus Christ, by revealing the secret purpose which after the silence of long ages

¹² no man put it into my hands, no man taught me what it meant, I had it by a revelation of Jesus Christ.

³ how the divine secret was disclosed to me by a revelation (if you read what I have already written briefly about this,

³ Blessed is he who reads aloud, blessed they who hear the words of this prophecy and lay to heart what is written in it; for the time is near. ⁴ John to the seven churches in Asia: grace be to you and peace from HE WHO IS AND WAS AND IS COMING, and from the seven Spirits before his throne,

⁹ I John, your brother and your companion in the distress and realm and patient endurance which Jesus brings, found myself in the island called Patmos, for adhering to God's word and the testimony of Jesus.

¹⁹ Write down your vision of what is and what is to be hereafter.

¹ After this I looked, and there was a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice I had heard talking with me like a trumpet said, "Come up here, and I will show you what must come to pass after this."

² And I saw the holy City, the new Jerusalem, descending from God out of heaven, all ready like a bride arrayed for her husband.

⁶ [vss 6,7 relocated between vss 9 & 10] And he said to me, "These words are trustworthy and genuine, for the Lord God of the spirits of the prophets has sent his angel to show his servants what must very soon come to pass.

¹⁶ "I Jesus have sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches; I am the Scion and offspring of David, the bright star of the morning.