Book of Common Prayer

Happy are those who hear the word of God and keep it. John is to write to the seven congregations in Asia. Seven candlesticks, and in the midst of them one like the Son of man.

1 The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave to him so that he could show to his servants things which must shortly come to pass. And he sent and showed it by his angel to his servant John, ² who bore witness of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all the things that he saw. ³ Happy is he who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and keep those things that are written therein. For the time is at hand.

⁴ John, to the seven congregations in Asia. Grace be with you and peace, from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits that are present before his throne, ⁵ and from Jesus Christ, who is a faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and Lord over the kings of the earth.

To him who loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood, ⁶ and made us kings and priests unto God his Father, be glory and dominion forevermore. Amen. ⁷ Behold, he comes with clouds, and all eyes shall see him, and they also who pierced him. And all the kindreds of the earth shall wail. Even so. Amen. ⁸ I am the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, says the Lord Almighty, who is and who was and who is to come.

³⁷ In the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, If anyone thirsts, let him come unto me and drink. ³⁸ He who believes on me, as says the scripture, out of his belly shall flow rivers of the water of life.

³⁹ He spoke this of the Spirit, which those who believed on him would receive.  For the Holy Spirit was not yet there, because Jesus was not yet glorified. ⁴⁰ Many of the people, when they heard this saying, said, Of a truth, this is a prophet. ⁴¹ Others said, This is the Christ. Some said, Will the Christ come out of Galilee? ⁴² Does the scripture not say that Christ will come of the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was?

⁴³ So was there dissension among the people about him. ⁴⁴ And some of them wanted to seize him, but no man laid hands on him.

⁴⁵ Then the officers went to the high priests and Pharisees, who said to them, Why have you not brought him? ⁴⁶ The officers answered, Never did any man speak as this man does. ⁴⁷ Then the Pharisees answered them, Are you also deceived? ⁴⁸ Do any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believe on him? ⁴⁹ But the common people, who do not know the law, are cursed.

⁵⁰ Nicodemus (he who had come to Jesus by night, and was one of them) said to them, ⁵¹ Does our law judge any man before it hears him and knows what he has done? ⁵² They answered and said to him, Are you also of Galilee? Search and look, for no prophet arises out of Galilee.