Mark 9:2-13

The Transfiguration

2 ¹And after six days Jesus took with him ²Peter and James and John, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. And he was ³transfigured before them,

3 and ⁴his clothes became radiant, intensely white, as no one^[a] on earth could bleach them.

4 And there appeared to them Elijah with Moses, and they were talking with Jesus.

5 And Peter said to Jesus, ⁵"Rabbi,^[b] it is good that we are here. Let us make three ⁶tents, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah."

6 For ⁷he did not know what to say, for they were terrified.

7 And ⁸a cloud overshadowed them, and ⁹a voice came out of the cloud, ¹⁰"This is my beloved Son;^[c]11listen to him."

8 And suddenly, looking around, they no longer saw anyone with them but Jesus only.

9 ¹²And as they were coming down the mountain, ¹³he charged them to tell no one what they had seen, ¹⁴until the Son of Man had risen from the dead.

10 ¹⁵So they kept the matter to themselves, ¹⁶questioning what this rising from the dead might mean.

11 And they asked him, "Why do the scribes say ¹⁷that first Elijah must come?"

12 And he said to them, "Elijah does come first ¹⁸to restore all things. And ¹⁹how is it written of the Son of Man that he should ²⁰suffer many things and ²¹be treated with contempt?

13 But I tell you that Elijah has come, and ²²they did to him whatever they pleased, as it is written of him."