And six days after Jesus taketh with him Peter and James and John, only, and carrieth them up with him into an exceeding high mountain in great privacy; and was transfigured before them.

And it came to pass, as he was at prayer, that the appearance of his countenance was altered, and his raiment white and refulgent.

He

in his humiliation his judgment was taken away: but his generation who can describe? for his life was taken away from the earth."

So Christ also did not himself assume the glory to become high-priest, but he [gave it] who spake to him, "Thou art my Son; I have this day begotten thee."

earnestly looking up to Jesus the author and the finisher of faith; who, for the joy set before him, endured the cross, despising shame, and hath sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

And became

And going a little farther, he fell on his face, praying, and saying, My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt.

Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.

If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and as I abide in his love.

though he was a son, he learned obedience from the things which he suffered:

then I said, Here am I; (in the volume of the book it is written of me) I come to do thy will, O God."

The death

No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment I have received from my Father.

Father, glorify thy name! Then came a voice from heaven, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.

But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father hath given me commandment, so I do. Arise, let us go hence.

Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, "Cursed is every one who is hanged on a tree:"

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

earnestly looking up to Jesus the author and the finisher of faith; who, for the joy set before him, endured the cross, despising shame, and hath sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

who himself bore our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead unto sins, might live unto righteousness; "by whose stripes, [even] his, ye were healed."

For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, put to death indeed in the flesh, but raised to life by the Spirit:

General references

But he who is greatest among you shall be your servant.

For which is the greater, he that sitteth at table, or he that waits? is not he that sitteth at table? but I am in the midst of you as he that serveth.