The Transfiguration: Seeing Jesus For Who He Is | Mark 9:2-13
Mark 1 - 8
John the Baptist Prepares the Way (1:1-8)
Jesus is Baptized, Tempted, Starts His Ministry & Calls His First Disciples (1:9-20)
Jesus Heals and Preaches (1:21-2:12)
Jesus Calls Levi, Is Asked about Fasting, Jesus Is the Lord of the Sabbath (2:13-28)
Jesus Heals & Great Crowds Follow Him (3:1-12)
Jesus Appoints the Twelve Apostles (3:13-21)
Jesus Discusses Blasphemy Against Holy Spirit & Who His Mother & Brothers Are (3:22-35)
Jesus Teaches the Parable of Sower, Seed, and the Purpose of Parables (4:1-34)
Jesus Calms a Storm & Heals (4:35-5:43)
Jesus is Rejected at Nazareth (6:1-6)
Jesus Sends out the Twelve Apostles (6:7-13)
The Death of John the Baptist (6:14-29)
Jesus Feeds 5,000 (6:30-44)
Jesus Walks on Water (6:45-52)
Jesus Heals, Discusses Traditions & Commandments (6:53-7:37)
Jesus Feeds 4,000 (8:1-10)
Pharisees Demand a Sign, The Leaven of Pharisees & Herod, Jesus Heals (8:11-26)
Peter Confesses Jesus as the Christ (8:27-30)
Jesus Foretells His Death & Resurrection (8:31-9:1)
Mark 9:2-8
The Transfiguration
2 And after six days Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, 3 and his clothes became radiant, intensely white, as no one[a] on earth could bleach them. 4 And there appeared to them Elijah with Moses, and they were talking with Jesus. 5 And Peter said to Jesus, “Rabbi,[b] it is good that we are here. Let us make three tents, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah.” 6 For he did not know what to say, for they were terrified. 7 And a cloud overshadowed them, and a voice came out of the cloud, “This is my beloved Son;[c] listen to him.” 8 And suddenly, looking around, they no longer saw anyone with them but Jesus only.
2 Peter 1:16
16 For we did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
“Transfigured” (metemorphōthē, cf. Eng. “metamorphosis”) means “to be changed into another form,” not merely a change in outward appearance.
Romans 12:2
2 Do not be conformed to this world,[a] but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.[b]
2 Corinthians 3:18
18 And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord,[a] are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another.[b] For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.
Jesus’ Kingdom on Earth
Acts 15:14–18
14 Simeon has related how God first visited the Gentiles, to take from them a people for his name.15 And with this the words of the prophets agree, just as it is written,
16 “‘After this I will return,
and I will rebuild the tent of David that has fallen;
I will rebuild its ruins,
and I will restore it,
17 that the remnant[a] of mankind may seek the Lord,
and all the Gentiles who are called by my name,
says the Lord, who makes these things 18 known from of old.’
1 Corinthians 15:20–28
20 But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.21 For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. 22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. 23 But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ. 24 Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power. 25 For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. 26 The last enemy to be destroyed is death. 27 For “God[a] has put all things in subjection under his feet.” But when it says, “all things are put in subjection,” it is plain that he is excepted who put all things in subjection under him. 28 When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to him who put all things in subjection under him, that God may be all in all.
Revelation 1:14–15
14 The hairs of his head were white, like white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire,15 his feet were like burnished bronze, refined in a furnace, and his voice was like the roar of many waters.
Revelation 19:15
15 From his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and he will rule[a]them with a rod of iron. He will tread the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty.
Revelation 20:4-6
4 Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. 5 The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection. 6 Blessed and holy is the one who shares in the first resurrection! Over such the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years.
Mark 9:7
7 And a cloud overshadowed them, and a voice came out of the cloud, “This is my beloved Son;[a]listen to him.”
Mark 9:9-10
9 And as they were coming down the mountain, he charged them to tell no one what they had seen, until the Son of Man had risen from the dead. 10 So they kept the matter to themselves, questioning what this rising from the dead might mean.
Mark 9:11-13
11 And they asked him, “Why do the scribes say that first Elijah must come?” 12 And he said to them, “Elijah does come first to restore all things. And how is it written of the Son of Man that he should suffer many things and be treated with contempt? 13 But I tell you that Elijah has come, and they did to him whatever they pleased, as it is written of him.”