A cloud came, overshadowing them, and a voice came out of the cloud, “This is my beloved Son. Listen to him.”
Parallel translations
- KJV And there was a cloud that overshadowed them: and a voice came out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son: hear him.
- BSB Then a cloud appeared and enveloped them, and a voice came from the cloud: “This is My beloved Son. Listen to Him!”
- NKJV And a cloud came and overshadowed them; and a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is My beloved Son. Hear Him!”
- NASB Then a cloud formed, overshadowing them, and a voice came out of the cloud: “This is My beloved Son; listen to Him!”
- NLT Then a cloud overshadowed them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is my dearly loved Son. Listen to him.”
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Quick answer
A cloud overshadows them and the Father's voice declares, 'This is my beloved Son. Listen to him.' God himself confirms Jesus' identity and authority.
Overview
The cloud signifies God's presence, as at Sinai and the tabernacle, and the voice echoes Jesus' baptism while adding the command to 'listen to him.' This divine endorsement settles Peter's confusion: Jesus is supreme over Moses and Elijah and is to be heeded above all. The Father vindicates the suffering path Jesus foretold, calling the disciples to trust and obey his Son.
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- 2 Pet 1:17For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when the voice came to him from the Majestic Glory, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”
- Matt 3:17Behold, a voice out of the heavens said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”
- Luke 9:34–36While 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.”
- Heb 2:1Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away.
- Exod 23:21–22Pay attention to him, and listen to his voice. Don’t provoke him, for he will not pardon your disobedience, for my name is in him.
- Matt 17:5–7While 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.”
- John 5:22–25For the Father judges no one, but he has given all judgment to the Son,
- 1 Jn 5:11–12The testimony is this, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
- John 1:34I have seen, and have testified that this is the Son of God.”
- Ps 2:7I will tell of the decree. Yahweh said to me, “You are my son. Today I have become your father.
- Deut 18:15–19Yahweh your God will raise up to you a prophet from among you, of your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him.
- Rev 1:7Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, including those who pierced him. All the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. Even so, Amen.
- John 6:69We have come to believe and know that you are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
- Heb 12:25–26See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,
- 1 Kgs 8:10–12It came to pass, when the priests had come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled Yahweh’s house,
- Ps 97:2Clouds and darkness are around him. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.
- Acts 3:22–23For Moses indeed said to the fathers, ‘The Lord God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him in all things whatever he says to you.
- John 20:31but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.
- John 3:16–18For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
- Exod 40:34Then the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting, and Yahweh’s glory filled the tabernacle.
- Acts 1:9When he had said these things, as they were looking, he was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight.
- 1 Jn 5:20We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
- Acts 8:36As they went on the way, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “Behold, here is water. What is keeping me from being baptized?”
- Matt 26:63–64But Jesus held his peace. The high priest answered him, “I adjure you by the living God, that you tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God.”
- John 5:37The Father himself, who sent me, has testified about me. You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form.
- Matt 27:54Now the centurion, and those who were with him watching Jesus, when they saw the earthquake, and the things that were done, feared exceedingly, saying, “Truly this was the Son of God.”
- John 5:18For this cause therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.
- Dan 7:13I saw in the night visions, and behold, there came with the clouds of the sky one like a son of man, and he came even to the ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.
- 1 Jn 4:9–10By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
- John 9:35Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of God?”
- Acts 7:37This is that Moses, who said to the children of Israel, ‘The Lord our God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, like me.’
- Rom 1:4who was declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord,
- John 1:49Nathanael answered him, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are King of Israel!”
- Exod 24:16Yahweh’s glory settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. The seventh day he called to Moses out of the middle of the cloud.
- John 19:7The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.”
- Matt 27:43He trusts in God. Let God deliver him now, if he wants him; for he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’”
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