Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.
WEB
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.”
YLT
I am the Alpha and the Omega--the Beginning and End--the First and the Last.
DBT
I [am] the Alpha and the Omega, [the] first and [the] last, the beginning and the end.
About this book
New Testament▾
About this book
New TestamentRevelation — John on Patmos sees the Lamb who was slain enthroned, the scroll opened, Babylon fallen, and the new Jerusalem descending. The canon's capstone — and its most interpretively contested book.
- Author
- John (traditional — apostle of Jesus; same author as the Fourth Gospel). Some modern critical scholarship distinguishes ‘John of Patmos’ from the apostle; site defaults to traditional attribution
- Date
- Late-date c. AD 95–96 under Domitian (Irenaeus, mainstream traditional); early-date c. AD 65–68 under Nero (required by most preterist readings). Site surfaces both