Revelation 1:8-10

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁸ “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.

A Vision of Christ

⁹ I, John, your brother who share with you in Jesus the persecution and the kingdom and the patient endurance, was on the island called Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.^{[a] 10} I was in the spirit^[b] on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet