Mark 9:2

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Summary

And after six days Jesus taketh with him Peter, and James, and John, and leadeth them up into an high mountain apart by themselves: and he was transfigured before them.

After

Matthew 17:11

Luke 9:28

An high

Transfigured

General references

Luke 9:29

Bible References

After

He answered them, "Elijah is indeed coming and will restore all things.

Now about eight days after Jesus said this, he took Peter, John, and James with him and went up on a mountain to pray.

An high

So Moses got up, along with Joshua his servant, and went up on the mountain of God.

So Ahab got up to get something to eat and drink while Elijah went back up to the top of Mount Carmel, where he bowed low to the ground and placed his face between his knees.

When Jesus heard this, he left that place and went by boat to a deserted place by himself. The crowds heard of it and followed him on foot from the neighboring towns.

Now it was in those days that Jesus went to a mountain to pray, and he spent the whole night in prayer to God.

Transfigured

After this, Jesus appeared in a different form to two disciples as they were walking into the country.

When Moses came down from Mount Sinai, he had the two tablets in his hand, and he did not know that the skin of his face was ablaze with light because he had been speaking with God.

"Your eyes will see the king in his elegance, and will view a land that stretches afar.

For he grew up before him like a tender plant, and like a root out of a dry ground; he had no form and he had no majesty that we should look at him, and there is no attractiveness that we should desire him.

His appearance was changed in front of them, his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became as white as light.

While he was praying, the appearance of his face changed, and his clothes turned dazzling white.

The Word became flesh and lived among us. We gazed on his glory, the kind of glory that belongs to the Father's unique Son, who is full of grace and truth.

Do not be conformed to this world, but continuously be transformed by the renewing of your minds so that you may be able to determine what God's will is what is proper, pleasing, and perfect.

Now if the ministry of death that was inscribed in letters of stone came with such glory that the people of Israel could not gaze on Moses' face (because the glory was fading away from it),

In God's own form existed he, and shared with God equality, deemed nothing needed grasping.

He will change our unassuming bodies and make them like his glorious body through the power that enables him to bring everything under his authority.

When we told you about the power and coming of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah, we did not follow any clever myths. Rather, we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.

Among the lamp stands there was someone like the Son of Man. He was wearing a long robe with a gold sash around his chest.

Then I saw a large, white throne and the one who was sitting on it. The earth and the heavens fled from his presence, and no place was found for them.

General references

While he was praying, the appearance of his face changed, and his clothes turned dazzling white.