Mark 9:2–13

The Transfiguration

^2oAnd after six days Jesus took with him ^pPeter and James and John, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. And he was ^qtransfigured before them, ³and ^rhis clothes became radiant, intensely white, as no one¹ on earth could bleach them. ⁴And there appeared to them Elijah with Moses, and they were talking with Jesus. ⁵And Peter said to Jesus, ^s“Rabbi,² it is good that we are here. Let us make three ^ttents, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah.” ⁶For ^uhe did not know what to say, for they were terrified. ⁷And ^va cloud overshadowed them, and ^va voice came out of the cloud, ^w“This is my beloved Son;^{3 x}listen to him.” ⁸And suddenly, looking around, they no longer saw anyone with them but Jesus only.

^9yAnd as they were coming down the mountain, ^zhe charged them to tell no one what they had seen, ^auntil the Son of Man had risen from the dead. ^10bSo they kept the matter to themselves, ^cquestioning what this rising from the dead might mean. ¹¹And they asked him, “Why do the scribes say ^dthat first Elijah must come?” ¹²And he said to them, “Elijah does come first ^eto restore all things. And ^fhow is it written of the Son of Man that he should ^gsuffer many things and ^hbe treated with contempt? ¹³But I tell you that Elijah has come, and ⁱthey did to him whatever they pleased, as it is written of him.”