Mark 9:2-13

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² Six days later Jesus took Peter, James and John to the top of a mountain. No one else was there.

Suddenly his face began to shine with glory, ³ and his clothing became dazzling white, far more glorious than any earthly process could ever make it! ⁴ Then Elijah and Moses appeared and began talking with Jesus!

⁵ “Teacher, this is wonderful!” Peter exclaimed. “We will make three shelters here, one for each of you. . . . ”

⁶ He said this just to be talking, for he didn’t know what else to say and they were all terribly frightened.

⁷ But while he was still speaking these words, a cloud covered them, blotting out the sun, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is my beloved Son. Listen to him.”

⁸ Then suddenly they looked around and Moses and Elijah were gone, and only Jesus was with them.

⁹ As they descended the mountainside he told them never to mention what they had seen until after he had risen^[a] from the dead. ¹⁰ So they kept it to themselves, but often talked about it, and wondered what he meant by “rising from the dead.”

¹¹ Now they began asking him about something the Jewish religious leaders often spoke of, that Elijah must return before the Messiah could come.^{[b] 12-13} Jesus agreed that Elijah must come first and prepare the way—and that he had, in fact, already come! And that he had been terribly mistreated, just as the prophets had predicted. Then Jesus asked them what the prophets could have been talking about when they predicted that the Messiah^[c] would suffer and be treated with utter contempt.