Jump, to the Transfiguration! Well, it seems quite an isolated event, and provides some variety...
17.1 Is the timing (“after six days”) significant? The “Inner Circle” of Peter, James and John. Jesus loved the mountains – would he have been a skier, climber, astronomer? He seems to have gone there mainly to be closer to his Father.
17.5 The same wording as at Jesus’ Baptism (3.17); except for the additional command to just be quiet and listen!
17.9 Is this for the same reason as the secret (eg 16.20), that blabbing would have inflamed the authorities and shortened his ministry? Or is there another reason to keep eternal insights until after the Resurrection?
Tom Wright imagines what it must have been like, to be there on the mountain and to see it all happening.
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