The Mountain of Glory: Mark 9:1-13

Six days after Peter's confession, Jesus took three of them up a high mountain—Peter, James, and John. Just the four of them, climbing until the villages below became specks, until the air thinned and the world fell away.

Then Jesus changed.

Mark gropes for words: his clothes became dazzling white, whiter than anyone in the world could bleach them. This was not reflected light. This was light radiating out from within, the glory of God breaking through human skin, the veil of flesh pulled back to reveal what had always been underneath.

And suddenly Moses and Elijah were there—the lawgiver and the prophet, dead for centuries, standing on the mountaintop talking with Jesus. The Law and the Prophets converging on the one they had pointed toward.