2 Peter 1:17

Peter recalls the Father honoring Jesus at the Transfiguration with the voice declaring him the beloved Son. It matters because God himself testified to Jesus' identity and approval.

Cross-references · 34

• Mark 9:7A cloud came, overshadowing them, and a voice came out of the cloud, “This is my beloved Son. Listen to him.”
• Matt 17:5While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. Behold, a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him.”
• Matt 3:17Behold, a voice out of the heavens said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”
• Luke 3:22and the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form like a dove on him; and a voice came out of the sky, saying “You are my beloved Son. In you I am well pleased.”
• Luke 9:34–35While he said these things, a cloud came and overshadowed them, and they were afraid as they entered into the cloud.
• Mark 1:11A voice came out of the sky, “You are my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”
• Matt 12:18“Behold, my servant whom I have chosen; my beloved in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my Spirit on him. He will proclaim justice to the nations.
• John 3:35The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand.
• John 5:26For as the Father has life in himself, even so he gave to the Son also to have life in himself.
• Isa 42:1“Behold, my servant, whom I uphold; my chosen, in whom my soul delights — I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to the nations.
• John 12:28–29Father, glorify your name!” Then there came a voice out of the sky, saying, “I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.”
• 2 Jn 1:3Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.
• 2 Cor 1:3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort;
• Luke 10:22Turning to the disciples, he said, “All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is, except the Father, and who the Father is, except the Son, and he to whomever the Son desires to reveal him.”
• 2 Cor 11:31The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, he who is blessed forever more, knows that I don’t lie.
• John 5:36–37But the testimony which I have is greater than that of John, for the works which the Father gave me to accomplish, the very works that I do, testify about me, that the Father has sent me.
• John 17:21that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.
• Jude 1:1Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:
• John 5:21–23For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires.
• John 6:39This is the will of my Father who sent me, that of all he has given to me I should lose nothing, but should raise him up at the last day.
• John 6:27Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”
• John 10:36do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You blaspheme,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God?’
• John 20:17Jesus said to her, “Don’t hold me, for I haven’t yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers, and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”
• John 14:6Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
• John 10:15even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.
• Matt 17:3Behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them talking with him.
• Isa 53:10Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him. He has caused him to suffer. When you make his soul an offering for sin, he will see his offspring. He will prolong his days, and Yahweh’s pleasure will prosper in his hand.
• John 14:11Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; or else believe me for the very works’ sake.
• John 13:1–3Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
• Matt 11:25–27At that time, Jesus answered, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants.
• John 6:37All those whom the Father gives me will come to me. He who comes to me I will in no way throw out.
• Rom 15:6that with one accord you may with one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Matt 28:19Go, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
• John 14:8–9Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us.”

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