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13 And standing among them was one who looked like Jesus, who called himself the Son of Man,[a] wearing a long robe circled with a golden band across his chest. 14 His hair was white as wool or snow,[b] and his eyes penetrated like flames of fire. 15 His feet gleamed like burnished bronze, and his voice thundered like the waves against the shore. 16 He held seven stars in his right hand and a sharp, double-bladed sword in his mouth,[c] and his face shone like the power of the sun in unclouded brilliance.

17-18 When I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead; but he laid his right hand on me and said, “Don’t be afraid! Though I am the First and Last, the Living One who died, who is now alive forevermore, who has the keys of hell and death—don’t be afraid!

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 1:13 like Jesus, who called himself the Son of Man, literally, “like unto a Son of Man.” John recognizes him from having lived with him for three years, and from seeing him in glory at the Transfiguration.
  2. Revelation 1:14 His hair was white as wool or snow, literally, “His head—the hair—was white like wool.”
  3. Revelation 1:16 in his mouth, literally, “came out from his mouth.”

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