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Revelation 1:10

I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,

KJV

ἐγενόμην ἐν πνεύματι ἐν τῇ κυριακῇ ἡμέρᾳ, καὶ ἤκουσα ὀπίσω μου φωνὴν μεγάλην ὡς σάλπιγγος

Greek NT

fui in spiritu in Dominica die, et audivi post me vocem magnam tamquam tubæ,

Vulgate

I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet

ASV

I was in the spirit on the Lord's day and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

14 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

γίνομαι
ginomai
verb · 667×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
κυριακός
kuriakos
adjective · 2×
μέγας
megas
adjective · 244×
πνεῦμα
pneuma
noun · 379×
σάλπιγξ
salpigx
noun · 11×
φωνή
phone
noun · 139×
ἀκούω
akouo
verb · 427×
ἐγώ
ego
pronoun · 1720×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ἡμέρα
emera
noun · 388×
ὀπίσω
opiso
adverb · 35×
o
article · 19778×
ὡς
os
adverb · 502×

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

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SBLGNT: ὀπίσω μου φωνὴν | WH/Treg/NIV: ὀπίσω μου φωνὴν | RP: φωνὴν ὀπίσω μου
  • ὀπίσω μου φωνὴνSBLGNT
  • ὀπίσω μου φωνὴνWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • φωνὴν ὀπίσω μουRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Themes

Theophany

Historic Christian voices

7 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

If, therefore, those who were brought up in the ancient order of things have come to the possession of a new hope, no longer observing the Sabbath, but living in the observance of the Lord's Day, on which also our life has sprung up again by Him and by His death — whom some deny — then how shall we be able to live apart from Him?
Forasmuch as there are certain persons who kneel on the Lord's Day and in the days of Pentecost, therefore, to the intent that all things may be uniformly observed everywhere in every parish, it seems good to the holy Synod that prayer be made to God standing.
Holy Mother Church is conscious that she must celebrate the saving work of her divine Spouse by devoutly recalling it on certain days throughout the course of the year. Every week, on the day which she has called the Lord's Day, she keeps the memory of the Lord's resurrection. She also celebrates it once in the year, together with his blessed passion, in the most solemn festiva…
We believe that the first day of the week is the Lord's Day, or Christian Sabbath; and is to be kept sacred to religious purposes, by abstaining from all secular labor and sinful recreations; by the devout observance of all the means of grace, both private and public; and by preparation for that rest that remaineth for the people of God.

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 16:2 — Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.
  • 1Cor 16:2 — Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.
  • 1Thess 4:16 — For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
  • 2Cor 12:2 — I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
  • Acts 10:10 — And he became very hungry, and would have eaten: but while they made ready, he fell into a trance,
  • Acts 10:10 — And he became very hungry, and would have eaten: but while they made ready, he fell into a trance,
  • Acts 20:7 — And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.
  • Acts 20:7 — And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.
  • Exod 19:16 — And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that
  • Exod 24:16 — And the glory of the LORD abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days: and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud.
  • Ezek 9:1 — He cried also in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause them that have charge over the city to draw near, even every man with his destroying weapon in his hand.
  • Ezek 37:1 — The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones,
  • Isa 56:6 — Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh ho
  • Isa 58:1 — Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
  • Isa 58:13 — If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, n
  • John 20:1 — The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.
  • John 20:19 — Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them,
  • Lev 23:3 — Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.
  • Luke 1:41 — And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost:
  • Mark 2:28 — Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.
  • Matt 12:8 — For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day.
  • Matt 22:43 — He saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit call him Lord, saying,
  • Matt 22:43 — He saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit call him Lord, saying,
  • Num 24:4 — He hath said, which heard the words of God, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:
  • Ps 118:24 — This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.
  • Rev 4:1 — After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things wh
  • Rev 4:1 — After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things wh
  • Rev 4:2 — And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne.
  • Rev 10:3 — And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.
  • Rev 14:2 — And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps:
  • Rev 17:3 — So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
  • Rev 21:10 — And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,
  • Rev 21:10 — And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,