The Three Parallel Accounts of the Transfiguration
Sidebar to: What Really Happened at the Transfiguration?
Matthew 17:1–8 | Mark 9:2–8 | Luke 9:28–36 |
1After six days, Jesus takes with him Peter and James and John his brother, | 2After six days, Jesus takes with him Peter and James and John, | 28After these words about eight days, taking with him Peter and John and James, |
and he leads them up a high mountain apart. | and he leads them up a high mountain apart alone. | he went up the mountain |
2He was transfigured before them, | He was transfigured before them, | to pray. 29As he was praying |
and his face | the appearance of his face (was) altered, | |
shone like the sun, but his garments became white as light | 3and his garments became glistening, intensely white, as no fuller on earth could bleach them. | and his clothing (became) dazzling white |
3And behold, appeared to them Moses and Elijah | 4And appeared to them Elijah with Moses, | 30 And behold, two men |
talking with him. | and they were talking with Jesus. |
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