The Transfiguration
1After
six days
Jesus took
with him
Peter,
James and
John the
brother of
James, and
led them
up a high
mountain
by
themselves.
2 There
he was
transfigured
before
them. His
face shone
like the
sun, and
his
clothes
became as
white as
the light.
3 Just
then there
appeared
before
them Moses
and
Elijah,
talking
with
Jesus.
4 Peter
said to
Jesus,
“Lord, it
is good
for us to
be here.
If you
wish, I
will put
up three
shelters—one
for you,
one for
Moses and
one for
Elijah.”
5 While
he was
still
speaking,
a bright
cloud
covered
them, and
a voice
from the
cloud
said,
“This is
my Son,
whom I
love; with
him I am
well
pleased.
Listen to
him!”
6 When
the
disciples
heard
this, they
fell
facedown
to the
ground,
terrified.
7 But
Jesus came
and
touched
them.
“Get up,”
he said.
“Don’t be
afraid.”
8 When
they
looked up,
they saw
no one
except
Jesus.
9 As
they were
coming
down the
mountain,
Jesus
instructed
them,
“Don’t tell anyone what you have seen,
until the
Son of Man
has been
raised
from the
dead.”
10 The disciples asked him, “Why then do
the
teachers
of the law
say that
Elijah
must come
first?”
11 Jesus replied,
“To be
sure,
Elijah
comes and
will
restore
all
things.
12 But
I tell
you,
Elijah has
already
come, and
they did
not
recognize
him, but
have done
to him
everything
they
wished. In
the same
way the
Son of Man
is going
to suffer
at their
hands.”
13 Then
the
disciples
understood
that he
was
talking to
them about
John the
Baptist.
Jesus Heals a Demon-Possessed
Boy
14 When they came to the crowd, a man
approached
Jesus and
knelt
before
him.
15 “Lord,
have mercy
on my
son,” he
said. “He
has
seizures
and is
suffering
greatly.
He often
falls into
the fire
or into
the water.
16 I
brought
him to
your
disciples,
but they
could not
heal him.”
17 “You
unbelieving
and
perverse
generation,”
Jesus
replied,
“how long
shall I
stay with
you? How
long shall
I put up
with you?
Bring the
boy here
to me.”
18 Jesus
rebuked
the demon,
and it
came out
of the
boy, and
he was
healed at
that
moment.
19 Then the disciples came to Jesus in
private
and asked,
“Why
couldn’t
we drive
it out?”
20>21 He replied, “Because you have so little faith. Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.”
Jesus Predicts His Death a
Second
Time
22 When they came together in Galilee, he
said to
them,
“The Son of Man is going to be
delivered
into the
hands of
men.
23 They
will kill
him, and
on the
third day
he will be
raised to
life.”
And the
disciples
were
filled
with
grief.
The Temple Tax
24 After Jesus and his disciples arrived
in
Capernaum,
the
collectors
of the
two-drachma
temple tax
came to
Peter and
asked,
“Doesn’t
your
teacher
pay the
temple
tax?”
25 “Yes, he does,” he replied.
When Peter came into the house, Jesus
was the
first to
speak.
“What do
you think,
Simon?” he asked.
“From whom
do the
kings of
the earth
collect
duty and
taxes—from
their own
children
or from
others?”
26 “From others,” Peter answered.
“Then the children are exempt,” Jesus said to him.
27 “But
so that we
may not
cause
offense,
go to the
lake and
throw out
your line.
Take the
first fish
you catch;
open its
mouth and
you will
find a
four-drachma
coin. Take
it and
give it to
them for
my tax and
yours.”