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Chapter study
…and the Gospel writers use the same vocabulary at the baptism and the transfiguration. Both sons go willingly. Both journeys take three days from the sentence of death to the moment life is received back, which is…
Devotional
…death and resurrection and Peter rebukes Him for it, chapter 8:31-33. The transfiguration functions as heaven's answer to Peter's resistance: the Son who must suffer is the very one the Father commands them to listen…
52 Week Journey
…cross daily, and follow. The chapter that holds this saying also holds the transfiguration and the first prediction of the cross, so the cost is never separated from the glory. Follow Me The call comes before the…
52 Week Journey
…handiwork. WEB This Is My Beloved Son, Listen to Him At the mountain of transfiguration, God narrows His speech to one command. Mark 9:7 A cloud came, overshadowing them, and a voice came out of the cloud, "This is my…
Biblical concept
…the reaction it caused. The Father declares it at the baptism and at the transfiguration. The Son does not claim it for himself first. It is spoken over him from heaven. 2 Samuel 7:14 God promises David that he will be…
Place in Scripture
…is not that God has softened, but that the way in has been opened. And the transfiguration puts the whole pattern in one scene: a high mountain, a cloud, a voice, and Moses and Elijah, two men who had each met God on a…
Bible question
…exactly the concern behind this question. The mountain he refers to is the transfiguration, Matthew 17:1-8, where a voice from heaven spoke about the Son. Peter appeals to a specific event with named witnesses rather…
Bible question
…recognized the risen Christ, and Moses and Elijah were recognized at the transfiguration though they had died centuries before. Matthew 17:3-4 Peter recognizes Moses and Elijah at the transfiguration and even names…
Bible question
…is publicly conferred at the start of his ministry and repeated at the transfiguration, Matthew 17:5, where the Father adds, listen to him. The high priest and the council Mark 14:61-64 Under oath he was asked, Are you…
The Sunday Study
Verse-by-verse teaching with historical context, and a prayer to close. Nothing else in the email.