And six days later Jesus *took with Him Peter, James, and John, and *brought them up on a high mountain by themselves. And He was transfigured before them;
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- WEB After 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.
- KJV 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.
- BSB After six days Jesus took with Him Peter, James, and John, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. There He was transfigured before them.
- NKJV Now after six days Jesus took Peter, James, and John, and led them up on a high mountain apart by themselves; and He was transfigured before them.
- NLT Six days later Jesus took Peter, James, and John, and led them up a high mountain to be alone. As the men watched, Jesus’ appearance was transformed,
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After six days Jesus takes Peter, James, and John up a mountain and is transfigured before them. His hidden divine glory shines forth.
Overview
The Transfiguration confirms the confession and the cross just spoken of, revealing the glory of the suffering Son of Man. The mountain setting and the three witnesses recall Moses' encounters with God. This unveiling assures the disciples that the path of suffering leads to glory, and that Jesus is far more than a prophet.
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- Luke 9:28–36About eight days after these sayings, he took with him Peter, John, and James, and went up onto the mountain to pray.
- Matt 17:1–8After six days, Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John his brother, and brought them up into a high mountain by themselves.
- Isa 33:17Your eyes will see the king in his beauty. They will see a distant land.
- Mark 5:37He allowed no one to follow him, except Peter, James, and John the brother of James.
- Mark 14:33He took with him Peter, James, and John, and began to be greatly troubled and distressed.
- 2 Cor 13:1This is the third time I am coming to you. “At the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.”
- Exod 24:13Moses rose up with Joshua, his servant, and Moses went up onto God’s Mountain.
- 1 Kgs 18:42So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he bowed himself down on the earth, and put his face between his knees.
- 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.
- Rom 12:2Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.
- Phil 3:21who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.
- Matt 17:11–13Jesus answered them, “Elijah indeed comes first, and will restore all things,
- Mark 16:12After these things he was revealed in another form to two of them, as they walked, on their way into the country.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1 Kgs 18:33He put the wood in order, and cut the bull in pieces, and laid it on the wood. He said, “Fill four jars with water, and pour it on the burnt offering, and on the wood.”
- Phil 2:6–8who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,
- Luke 6:12In these days, he went out to the mountain to pray, and he continued all night in prayer to God.
- Rev 1:13–17And 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.
- 2 Cor 3:7–10But if the service of death, written engraved on stones, came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look steadfastly on the face of Moses for the glory of his face; which was passing away:
- Matt 14:13Now when Jesus heard this, he withdrew from there in a boat, to a deserted place apart. When the multitudes heard it, they followed him on foot from the cities.
- 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.
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