As He prayed, the appearance of His face was altered, and His robe became white and glistening.
Parallel translations
- WEB As he was praying, the appearance of his face was altered, and his clothing became white and dazzling.
- KJV And as he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was altered, and his raiment was white and glistering.
- BSB And as He was praying, the appearance of His face changed, and His clothes became radiantly white.
- NASB And while He was praying, the appearance of His face became different, and His clothing became white and gleaming.
- NLT And as he was praying, the appearance of his face was transformed, and his clothes became dazzling white.
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As Jesus prays, His face changes and His clothing becomes dazzling white. The Transfiguration reveals the hidden glory of the Son of God.
Overview
While praying, Jesus is visibly transformed, His face and garments radiating heavenly light. This momentary unveiling shows the divine glory that His humanity ordinarily concealed. It confirms the truth of Peter's confession and assures the disciples that the coming suffering would not diminish His true majesty.
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- Matt 17:2He was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and his garments became as white as the light.
- Mark 9:2–3After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John, and brought them up onto a high mountain privately by themselves, and he was changed into another form in front of them.
- 2 Pet 1:16–18For we did not follow cunningly devised fables, when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
- Exod 34:29–35When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the testimony in Moses’ hand, when he came down from the mountain, Moses didn’t know that the skin of his face shone by reason of his speaking with him.
- Isa 53:2For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no good looks or majesty. When we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
- Phil 3:7–8However, I consider those things that were gain to me as a loss for Christ.
- Isa 33:17Your eyes will see the king in his beauty. They will see a distant land.
- Rev 20:11I saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for them.
- Acts 6:15All who sat in the council, fastening their eyes on him, saw his face like it was the face of an angel.
- Mark 16:12After these things he was revealed in another form to two of them, as they walked, on their way into the country.
- John 1:14The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.
- Rev 1:13–16And among the lamp stands was one like a son of man, clothed with a robe reaching down to his feet, and with a golden sash around his chest.
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