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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