An Ongoing Hunger for God's Presence
May 2, 2021
The Transfiguration
2 oAnd after six days Jesus took with him pPeter and James andJohn, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. And he wasqtransfigured before them, 3 and rhis clothes became radiant,intensely white, as no one1 on earth could bleach them. 4 And thereappeared to them Elijah with Moses, and they were talking withJesus. 5 And Peter said to Jesus, s“Rabbi,2 it is good that we arehere. Let us make three ttents, one for you and one for Moses andone for Elijah.” 6 For uhe did not know what to say, for they wereterrified. 7 And va cloud overshadowed them, and va voice came outof the cloud, w“This is my beloved Son;3 xlisten to him.” 8 Andsuddenly, looking around, they no longer saw anyone with them butJesus only.9 yAnd as they were coming down the mountain, zhe chargedthem to tell no one what they had seen, auntil the Son of Man hadrisen from the dead. 10 bSo they kept the matter to themselves,cquestioning what this rising from the dead might mean. 11 And theyasked him, “Why do the scribes say dthat first Elijah must come?”12 And he said to them, “Elijah does come first eto restore all things.And fhow is it written of the Son of Man that he should gsuffermany things and hbe treated with contempt? 13 But I tell you thatElijah has come, and ithey did to him whatever they pleased, as it iswritten of him.”