XLI. The Transfiguration

The Complete Sayings of Jesus, by Arthur Hinds, [1927], at sacred-texts.com

XLI

JESUS TRANSFIGURED—MOSES AND ELIAS APPEAR—A LUNATIC CURED: "HELP THOU MINE UNBELIEF"

A.D. 29 Age 32. On, and near, Mt. Hermon.

Luke 9, 28-42: Matthew 17, 1-21: Mark 9, 2-29.

IT came to pass, about an eight ^† days after these sayings, Jesus taketh Peter, John, and James his brother, and went up into a high mountain apart to pray: and Jesus was transfigured before them.

As he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was altered: his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light, and glistering, shining as snow, exceeding white, so as no fuller on earth can white them. And, behold, two men, Moses and Elias: who appeared in glory: talking

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with Jesus [they] spake of his decease which he should accomplish at Jerusalem.

Peter and they that were with Jesus saw his glory, and the two men with Jesus.

There came a bright cloud, and overshadowed them: and a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.

The disciples fell on their face, and were sore afraid. Jesus came and touched them, and said,

Suddenly, when they had lifted up their eyes, they saw no man any more, save Jesus only. And he charged them,

¶Questioning with one another what the rising from the dead should mean, his disciples asked Jesus, Why say the scribes that Elias must first come? Jesus told them,

The disciples understood that he spake of John the Baptist. They kept it close, and told no man in those days any of the things which they had seen.

¶When Jesus saw a multitude about his disciples, and the scribes questioning with them, he asked the scribes,

One of the multitude answered, Master, I have brought unto thee my son: Lord, have mercy; for he is lunatic, and sore vexed: ofttimes he falleth into the fire, and oft into the water. A spirit teareth him that he foameth again, and gnasheth his teeth, and pineth away. I brought him to thy disciples, and they could not cure him. He is mine only child.

Then Jesus said,

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They brought him: and as he was yet a coming, the spirit tare him; and he fell, and wallowed foaming. Jesus asked his father,

He said, Of a child. Have compassion on us. Jesus said,

Straightway the father said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou my unbelief.

Jesus rebuked the foul spirit, saying,

The child was cured from that very hour.

¶When Jesus was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, Why could not we cast him out? Jesus answered,

Footnotes

57:† Thus Luke. Matthew and Mark have it, "after six days."