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Its not a fable

Each of the four Gospels record eyewitness accounts of Jesus’ life. Some events appear in all four Gospels, while other events appear in only one. References to the transfiguration of Jesus appears in all four. Its significance is underlined by the Apostle Peter in 2 Peter 1 where he writes:

“We were not making up clever stories when we told you about the powerful coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. We saw his majestic splendour with our own eyes and … we ourselves heard that voice from heaven when we were with him on the holy mountain.”

The transfiguration was a powerful demonstration of Jesus’ divine nature and manifestation of the glory which Jesus had set aside in order to be in the flesh (incarnate). For just a short while the disciples saw Jesus transfigured (metamorphized is the Greek word) into who He fully is.

The whole purpose of the revelation was to reinforce the growing belief of those apostles as to who Jesus is. That’s exactly what Peter gets out of it when he remembers it and says we did not bring you cunningly devised fables, we made known to you the power of Jesus because we were with Him in the holy mountain. We know He is Messiah and will reign as Messiah because we saw His physical glory. We will see Jesus like this too when He returns!