Vision on a Mountain

Jesus on the Beatitudes

Many people had listened to Jesus teaching them about God, and seen the wonderful things he had done. Jesus asked his twelve disciples.

'Who do the people say I am?

'Some say you are John the Baptist come alive again, and some say you are a prophet, perhaps Elijah." replied the disciples. 

And who do you say I am? asked Jesus. 

Peter answered at once. 

You are the promised King, the Son of God.

Jesus was very pleased with Peter's answer. 

Peter, you are blessed, for God Himself has given you this understanding. 

You are the rock on which I will build my Church, he said. 

Now Jesus could prepare his disciples for what was to come.

Soon I shall have to go to Jerusalem. There they won't accept me as God's King. They will try me, condemn me and put me to death but, after three days. I will live again.

Then he warned his disciples that they too would have to suffer. 'Anyone who follows me, he said must give up the riches and comfort of this world, but they will be greatly rewarded in Heaven.

About a week later, Jesus took Peter. James and John with him up high on a mountain to pray. Suddenly the three disciples saw Jesus change: his face shone like the sun and his clothes looked as white as snow. 

Then two other shining figures appeared and talked to Jesus. They were Moses and the prophet Elijah.

The disciples were terrified. Then a bright cloud drifted over the sky, and a voice said. 'This is my Son. Listen to him.

The cloud passed, and the disciples were alone again on the mountain with Jesus. 

As they walked down the mountain, Jesus said;

'Tell no one what you have seen today until my Father brings me back to life again after my death.


In Christian teachings, the transfiguration is a pivotal moment, and the setting on the mountain is presented as the point where human nature meets God: the meeting place of the temporal and the eternal, with Jesus as the connecting point, acting as the bridge between heaven and earth.

The Transfiguration of Jesus is an event described in the New Testament, where Jesus is transfigured and becomes radiant in glory upon a mountain. The Synoptic Gospels (Matthew 17:1–8, Mark 9:2–8, Luke 9:28–36) recount the occasion, and the Second Epistle of Peter also refers to it (2 Peter 1:16–18).

↪wikiwand: Transfiguration of Jesus

The concept of the transfiguration as a preview and an anticipation of the resurrection includes several theological components. On one hand it cautions the disciples, and therefore the reader, that the glory of the transfiguration, and the message of Jesus, can only be understood in the context of his death and resurrection, and not simply on its own.



↪  Vision on a Mountain

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The Beginning

Image
Every day should be a holy day Long ago, before there was any time. God created the heavens and the Earth. At first there was nothing but a vast dark space of swirling water.  God looked at the darkness and made the light. There was now the light of day and the dark of night. This was the very first day. On the second day, God made the sky. He put some of the water in clouds in the sky, and the rest of the water He made into the seas. In between the sky and the seas was the air. Then God collected the seas together so that there was dry land between them. He ordered all kinds of plants and trees to grow on the land to produce seeds and fruit. That was the third day. On the fourth day. God put the brilliant golden sun in the sky to shine during the day, and the silver moon and stars to shine at night. Together they marked the seasons of the year. Next God created all the fish and creatures that live in the seas, and all the birds and creatures that fly in the air. He blessed them, and t
Read more

Who's who in the Bible

Image
↪  Aaron  the brother, companion and helper of Moses. He spoke to the King of Egypt on behalf of Moses, asking him to let the Hebrews leave Egyp. According to the Book of Numbers, Aaron died at 123 years of age, on Mount Hor, in the fortieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt. Deuteronomy, however, places these events at Moseroth. ↪   Absolom   son of David, who fought his father for the Kingdom. At Caesarea, in Cappadocia, the holy martyrs Lucius the Bishop. Caesarea Absolom, Lorgius, is a part of the William Blackwood & Sons published English language version of the Roman Breviary, the liturgical book of the rites of the Catholic Church containing hymns, readings, notations, and other religious material. What does Revelation 1:8 mean? In this verse John identifies Jesus as the Alpha and Omega. These are the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet.  The designation emphasizes Jesus as eternal—the beginning and the end. As someone correctly observed; &
Read more

Ruth and Naomi

Image
I'll talk to him tomorrow When they reached Bethlehem, it was harvest time for the barley. Naomi and Ruth were very poor. To get food. Ruth walked out to the fields each morning and picked up the barley the reapers had left behind. Elimelech lived in the little town of Bethlehem. in Judah, with his wife, Naomi, and his two sons. There had been bad harvests and everyone was growing hungry.  To save his family. Elimelech took them on the long journey across the Jordan River to the country of Moab, where there was plenty of food. There Elimelech's two sons grew up, and married two girls, named Orpah and Ruth. Then Elimelech died and, later, the two sons also died.  Naomi was left alone with her daughters-in-law. When she heard that the crops were good again in Judah and there was plenty of food, she longed to go back to Bethlehem and be with her own people. 'Let us come with you', said Orpah and Ruth, and together the three women left their homes and began the journey back
Read more

From Origin

The word 'Bible', is the equivalent of the Greek word biblia (diminutive from bı́blos, the inner bark of the papyrus), meaning originally 'books.' The phrase 'the books' (ta biblia ) occurs in Daniel 9:2 (Septuagint) for prophetic writings. 

In the Prologue

to Sirach it designates generally the Old Testament Scriptures; similarly in 1 Macc 12:9 ("the holy books"). The usage passed into the Christian church for Old Testament (2 Clem 14:2), and by and by (circa 5th century) was extended to the whole Scriptures.

Bibliotheca Divina

Jerome's name for the Bible (4th century) was "the Divine Library" (3) Afterward came an important change from plural to singular meaning. In process of time this name, with many others of Greek origin, passed into the vocabulary of the western church; and in the 13th century, by a happy solecism, the neuter plural came to be regarded as a feminine singular, and 'The Books' became by common consent 'The Book' (biblia, singular), in which form the word was passed into the languages of modern Europe" (Westcott, Bible in the Church, 5).