Wahyu 1:17

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Ketika aku melihat Dia, tersungkurlah aku di depan kaki-Nya sama seperti orang yang mati; tetapi Ia meletakkan tangan kanan-Nya di atasku, lalu berkata: "Jangan takut! Aku adalah Yang Awal dan Yang Akhir,

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Ketika aku melihat Dia, tersungkurlah aku di depan kaki-Nya sama seperti orang yang mati; tetapi Ia meletakkan tangan kanan-Nya di atasku, lalu berkata: "Jangan takut! Aku adalah Yang Awal dan Yang Akhir,

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Tatkala aku nampak Dia, maka rebahlah aku pada kaki-Nya seperti orang mati. Maka diletakkan-Nya tangan kanan-Nya ke atasku sambil berkata, "Jangan takut, Aku inilah yang awal dan yang akhir,

Contextual Overview

⁹ I Iohn, your brother and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdome and patience of Iesus Christe, was in the Ile that is called Pathmos, for ye worde of God, and for the witnessyng of Iesus Christe. ¹⁰ I was in the spirite on the Lordes day, and hearde behynde me a great voyce, as it had ben of a trumpe. ¹¹ Saying: I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: That thou seest, write in a booke, and sende it vnto the seuen Churches which are in Asia, vnto Ephesus, and vnto Smyrna, and vnto Pergamos, and vnto Thyatira, and vnto Sardis, and vnto Philadelphia, and vnto Laodicea. ¹² And I turned backe to see the voyce that spake to me: And whe I was turned, I sawe seuen golden candlestickes, ¹³ And in ye middes of the candlestickes, one lyke vnto the sonne of man, clothed with a garment downe to the feete, and girde about the pappes with a golden girdle. ¹⁴ His head, and his heeres were whyte as whyte wooll, and as snowe, and his eyes were as a flambe of fyre. ¹⁵ And his feete lyke vnto fine brasse, as though they brent in a furnace, and his voyce as the sounde of many waters. ¹⁶ And he had in his ryght hande, seuen starres: And out of his mouth went a sharpe two edged sworde: And his face shone, euen as the sunne in his strength. ¹⁷ And when I sawe hym, I fell at his feete euen as dead: And he layde his ryght hande vpon me, saying vnto me, feare not, I am the first and the last, ¹⁸ And am alyue, and was dead: And beholde, I am alyue for euermore, Amen, and haue the keyes of hell and of death.

Bible Verse Review
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I fell: Ezekiel 1:28, Daniel 8:18, Daniel 10:8, Daniel 10:9, Daniel 10:17-19, Habakkuk 3:16, Matthew 17:2-6, John 13:23, John 21:20

And he: Daniel 8:18, Daniel 10:10

Fear not: Genesis 15:1, Exodus 14:13, Exodus 20:20, Isaiah 41:10, Daniel 10:12, Matthew 28:4, Mark 16:5, Mark 16:6, Luke 24:37-39

I am: Revelation 1:8, Revelation 1:11, Revelation 2:8, Revelation 22:13, Isaiah 41:4, Isaiah 44:6, Isaiah 48:12

Reciprocal: Genesis 17:3 - General Genesis 26:24 - fear Genesis 28:17 - he was Exodus 3:6 - hid Exodus 3:14 - I AM hath Exodus 33:20 - Thou canst not Numbers 24:4 - falling Deuteronomy 32:39 - I kill Judges 13:6 - terrible 1 Chronicles 21:30 - he was afraid 2 Chronicles 9:4 - there was Job 4:14 - Fear Psalms 93:2 - thou Psalms 102:12 - thou Psalms 102:27 - thou art Psalms 119:120 - My flesh Psalms 139:5 - and laid Isaiah 6:5 - said I Isaiah 43:11 - General Lamentations 3:57 - thou saidst Lamentations 5:19 - remainest Ezekiel 3:23 - and I fell Ezekiel 44:4 - and I fell Daniel 8:17 - I was Daniel 10:19 - fear not Amos 9:1 - I saw Haggai 2:5 - fear Zechariah 13:7 - the man Matthew 14:26 - they were Matthew 14:27 - it Matthew 17:7 - touched Matthew 28:5 - Fear Mark 9:6 - General Luke 1:12 - he Luke 2:10 - Fear not Luke 5:8 - he Luke 9:34 - and they John 1:15 - he was John 6:20 - It is John 8:18 - one John 8:58 - Before John 13:19 - that I John 14:28 - Father Acts 7:32 - Then Acts 27:24 - Fear not Romans 16:26 - everlasting 2 Corinthians 1:19 - was not 2 Corinthians 4:10 - that 2 Corinthians 13:4 - yet Ephesians 1:20 - and set Philippians 2:6 - thought Colossians 1:17 - he 1 Timothy 3:16 - God 1 Timothy 6:16 - only Hebrews 1:11 - thou Hebrews 7:26 - made Hebrews 12:2 - the author Hebrews 12:21 - Moses Hebrews 13:8 - General 1 John 1:1 - That which Revelation 21:6 - I am

Cross-References

Genesis 9:13
I do set my bowe in the cloude, and it shall be for a token betweene me and the earth.

Job 38:12
Hast thou geue the morning his charge since thy dayes, and shewed the day spring his place,

Psalms 8:1
O God our Lorde, howe excellent is thy name in all the earth? for that thou hast set thy glory aboue the heauens.

Psalms 8:3
For I will consider thy heauens, euen the workes of thy fingers: the moone and the starres whiche thou hast ordayned.

Acts 13:47
For so hath the Lorde commaunded vs. I haue made thee a lyght of the Gentiles, that thou be the saluation vnto the ende of the worlde.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when I saw him,.... The glorious person here described, who was just behind him, and of whom he had a full view, being so near him:

I fell at his feet as dead; through consternation and fear, the sight was so amazing and terrible; the appearance of a divine person in any degree of majesty and glory, has had some considerable effect upon men, even upon the best of men; but John seems to be more affected with it than any, as the vision was the more grand and illustrious: Manoah was afraid he should die, but did not fall down as dead; Ezekiel fell upon his face, but had his senses; Daniel's comeliness turned into corruption, and he retained no strength, he fainted, and fell into a deep sleep; see Judges 13:22; but John fell down at once, as dead. This panic which good men were seized with, at any more than ordinary appearance of God, or apprehension of his presence, arose from a notion that present death ensues a sight of him; hence Jacob wonders, and is thankful, that he had seen God face to face, and yet his life was preserved,

Genesis 32:30; and such an effect as here, upon the body, any uncommon discovery of the divine Being has, partly through the weakness of human nature, which in its present circumstances is not able to bear the rays and glories of a divine person; hence the resurrection of the body in power, glory, and immortality, incorruption and spirituality, is necessary to the enjoyment of God and Christ in a state of bliss and happiness to all eternity; and partly through a consciousness of sin, which ever since the fall of Adam has occasioned fear and perturbation of mind, even in the best of saints, when they have had any sense of the divine Majesty being near, in an unusual form of glory:

and he laid his right hand upon me; even the same in which he had, and held the seven stars; and which showed what an affection he had for him, in what esteem he had him, what care he took of him, and what power he would exert in lifting up, strengthening, and supporting him; for he laid not his hand on him in wrath and angers, but in love; and in order to raise him up and revive his spirits, and remove his fears; hence the Ethiopic version renders it, "and he took hold on me with his right hand, and lifted me up"; as he does all who in a spiritual sense fall at his feet; it is always safe and comfortable falling there:

saying unto me, fear not; language which John had heard from him in the days of his flesh, and might therefore be chose now on purpose that he might the sooner know who he was and be comforted; see

Matthew 14:27.

I am the first and the last; a way of speaking used by God when he is about to comfort his people, and remove their fears; see

Isaiah 41:4; and is used by Christ for the same purpose here; and so is a proof of his true and proper deity, and is expressive of his eternity, and also of his dignity and excellency: he is the first and last in divine predestination, in the covenant of grace, in creation, in the business of salvation, and in his church, by whom, and for whom, are all things in it; he is the head of the body, the Son over his own house, and the firstborn among many brethren; and so the Alexandrian copy read, here, "the firstborn and the last". ראשון, "the first", is a name of the Messiah with the Jews t; Isaiah 41:4- :.

t T. Bab. Pesachim, fol. 5. 1. Bereshit Rabba, sect. 63. fol. 55. 2. Vajikra Rabba, sect. 30. fol. 171. 2. & Tzeror Hammor, fol. 71. 4.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead - As if I were dead; deprived of sense and consciousness. He was overwhelmed with the suddenness of the vision; he saw that this was a divine being; but he did not as yet know that it was the Saviour. It is not probable that in this vision he would immediately recognize any of the familiar features of the Lord Jesus as he had been accustomed to see him some sixty years before; and if he did, the effect would have been quite as overpowering as is here described. But the subsequent revelations of this divine personage would rather seem to imply that John did not at once recognize him as the Lord Jesus. The effect here described is one that often occurred to those who had a vision of God. See Daniel 8:18, “Now as he was speaking with me, I was in a deep sleep on my face toward the ground; but he touched me, and set me upright”; Daniel 8:27, “And I Daniel fainted, and was sick certain days; afterward I rose up, and did the king’s business.” Compare Exodus 33:20; Isaiah 6:5; Ezekiel 1:28; Ezekiel 43:3; Daniel 10:7-9, Daniel 10:17.

And he laid his right hand upon me - For the purpose of raising him up. Compare Daniel 8:18, “He touched me and set me upright.” We usually stretch out the right hand to raise up one who has fallen.

Saying unto me, Fear not - Compare Matthew 14:27, “It is I; be not afraid.” The fact that it was the Saviour, though he appeared in this form of overpowering majesty, was a reason why John should not be afraid. Why that was a reason, he immediately adds - that he was the first and the last; that though he had been dead he was now alive, and would continue ever to live, and that he had the keys of hell and of death. It is evident that John was overpowered with that awful emotion which the human mind must feel at the evidence of the presence of God. Thus, people feel when God seems to come near them by the impressive symbols of his majesty - as in the thunder, the earthquake, and the tempest. Compare Habakkuk 3:16; Luke 9:34. Yet, amidst the most awful manifestations of divine power, the simple assurance that our Redeemer is near us is enough to allay our fears, and diffuse calmness through the soul.

I am the first and the last - See the notes at Revelation 1:8. This is stated to be one of the reasons why he should not fear - that he was eternal: “I always live - have lived through all the past, and will live through all which is to come - and therefore I can accomplish all my promises, and execute all my purposes.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Revelation 1:17. I fell at his feet as dead. — The appearance of the glory of the Lord had then same effect upon Ezekiel, Ezekiel 1:28: and the appearance of Gabriel had the same effect on Daniel, Daniel 8:17. The terrible splendour of such majesty was more than the apostle could bear, and he fell down deprived of his senses, but was soon enabled to behold the vision by a communication of strength from our Lord's right hand.