The Voice from the Cloud In response to Peter’s thoughtless statement invoked by this awesome sight (“Rabbi, it is good for us to be here. Let us put up three shelters—one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah” [Mark 9:5]), in order to remove even the remotest notion that these three “glorious” figures should be regarded in any sense “equal in power and glory,” God appeared theophanically in the form of a bright cloud that enveloped them, and a Voice from the cloud said: “This is my beloved