RCL reading for Sunday, February 22, 2009:
Excerpt from The New Revised Standard Version
via Oremus (http://bible.oremus.org)
Mark 9:2-9
2 Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and led them up a high mountain apart, by themselves. And he was transfigured before them,
3 and his clothes became dazzling white, such as no one* on earth could bleach them.
4 And there appeared to them Elijah with Moses, who were talking with Jesus.
5 Then Peter said to Jesus, ‘Rabbi, it is good for us to be here; let us make three dwellings,* one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.’
6 He did not know what to say, for they were terrified.
7 Then a cloud overshadowed them, and from the cloud there came a voice, ‘This is my Son, the Beloved;* listen to him!’
8 Suddenly when they looked around, they saw no one with them any more, but only Jesus.
9 As they were coming down the mountain, he ordered them to tell no one about what they had seen, until after the Son of Man had risen from the dead.
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The parallels to the Exodus mountain top experience are striking. In at least one account there were six days getting from the
ReplyDeleteRed Sea to mount Sinai recalling the six days leading up to the transfiguration. There were clouds on the mountain. There were three companions, Aaron, Nadab and Abihu. The appearance was altered. The companions were in great fear. These parallels so struck Peter that he suggested building succoth for the wandering in the desert.
maimon