⁴ John, to the seven churches in Asia: Grace to you and peace from the One Who is and Who was and Who is coming, and from the seven Spirits^[a] that are before His throne,

¹⁰ I came-to-be in the Spirit^[a] on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like [the sound] of a trumpet, ¹¹ saying “Write in a book what you see, and send it to the seven churches— to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamum, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea”.