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, "Elijah does indeed come first and will restore all things.

Now about eight days after these sayings, Jesus took with him Peter, John, and James, and went up the mountain to pray.

An high

So Moses set out with Joshua his attendant, and Moses went up the mountain of God.

So Ahab went on up to eat and drink, while Elijah climbed to the top of Carmel. He bent down toward the ground and put his face between his knees.

Now when Jesus heard this he went away from there privately in a boat to an isolated place. But when the crowd heard about it, they followed him on foot from the towns.

Now it was during this time that Jesus went out to the mountain to pray, and he spent all night in prayer to God.

Transfigured

After this he appeared in a different form to two of them while they were on their way to the country.

Now when Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand -- when he came down from the mountain, Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him.

You will see a king in his splendor; you will see a wide land.

He sprouted up like a twig before God, like a root out of parched soil; he had no stately form or majesty that might catch our attention, no special appearance that we should want to follow him.

And he was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and his clothes became white as light.

As he was praying, the appearance of his face was transformed, and his clothes became very bright, a brilliant white.

Now the Word became flesh and took up residence among us. We saw his glory -- the glory of the one and only, full of grace and truth, who came from the Father.

Do not be conformed to this present world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may test and approve what is the will of God -- what is good and well-pleasing and perfect.

But if the ministry that produced death -- carved in letters on stone tablets -- came with glory, so that the Israelites could not keep their eyes fixed on the face of Moses because of the glory of his face (a glory which was made ineffective),

who though he existed in the form of God did not regard equality with God as something to be grasped,

who will transform these humble bodies of ours into the likeness of his glorious body by means of that power by which he is able to subject all things to himself.

For we did not follow cleverly concocted fables when we made known to you the power and return of our Lord Jesus Christ; no, we were eyewitnesses of his grandeur.

and in the midst of the lampstands was one like a son of man. He was dressed in a robe extending down to his feet and he wore a wide golden belt around his chest.

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

General references

As he was praying, the appearance of his face was transformed, and his clothes became very bright, a brilliant white.