Come and study Holy Scriptures with us as Father Stephen DeYoung teaches verse by verse on the podcast, The Whole Council of God.

Father Stephen is a former Protestant pastor and Bible teacher in the Reformed Church,

but now an Orthodox priest serving at St. George Orthodox Cathedral in Charleston, West Virginia. And as we're going to continue to see,

it came to pass about eight days after these things. So after this night when Jesus tells them

these things, it's eight days later. He took Peter, John, and James and went up on the mountain to pray.

And we know from tradition that this is Mount Tabor.

And again, we see Peter, James, and John as sort of the inner circle of the inner circle.

These three, who Jesus takes at particular time, so he raised

Gyrus's daughter and now here.

No, James and John are his cousins.

Yeah, and they're brothers. These are James and John the son of Zebedee there are a bunch of

Jameses so these are James and John the sons of Zebedee and then of course Peter

and as he prayed the appearance of his face was altered and his and then of course Peter.

And as he prayed, the appearance of his face was altered and his robe became white and glistening.

And behold, two men talked with him who were Moses and Elijah,

who appeared in glory and spoke of his

decease which he was about to accomplish at Jerusalem.

So Jesus is there praying.

He's taken these three with him.

As he's speaking, we read that his face changes.

And this seems to be a reference forward to, as we're going to see,

and as we've already seen in Matthew and Mark, after Jesus rises from the dead, and we're never given much of an explanation of this, probably because we can't understand it and can't be

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