is related to the larger context of chap. 9, in providing not only another answer to Herod’s crucial question (9:9), but also an important phase in the training of the Galilean witnesses that is prominent in this chapter. As an explicit answer to Herod’s question, heaven speaks forth through the voice from the cloud: “This is my Son, my Chosen One!” To the christological answers already given in the chapter, two others are thus added; and another is implicit in the withdrawal of Moses and Elijah,