Puzzle pieced Mount of Transfiguration

Mount of Transfiguration: Basic Text from Matthew 17:1-9 

Text from other gospels as indicated:  Luke            Luke JST            Mark

1 And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart to pray.

2 And as he prayed [He] was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun and his raiment was white as the light white and glistering shining, exceeding white as snow; so as no fuller on earth can white them.

3 And behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias who appeared in glory talking with him and spake of his decease and also his resurrection which he should accomplish at Jerusalem.

But Peter and they that were with him were heavy with sleep: and when they were awake, they saw his glory, and the two men that stood with him.

4  And it came to pass, as they departed from him Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here: if thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias for he wist not what to say; for they were sore afraid.

5 While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them and they feared as they entered into the cloud and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.

6 And when the disciples heard it, they fell on their face, and were sore afraid.

7 And Jesus came and touched them, and said, Arise, and be not afraid.

8 And when they had lifted up their eyes, they saw no man, save Jesus only.

9 And as they came down from the mountain, Jesus charged them, saying, Tell the vision to no man, until the Son of man be risen again from the dead. And they kept that saying with themselves, questioning one with another what the rising from the dead should mean.

Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin, May 1977 Ensign, “We Beheld His Glory”.

Perhaps Jesus felt not only a sense of the heavenly calm which that solitary opportunity for communion with His Father would bring, but even more, a sense that He would be supported in the coming hour by ministrations not of this earth. He was to be illuminated with a light which needed no aid from the sun or the moon or the stars. He went up to prepare for His coming death. He took His three apostles with Him in the belief that they, after having seen His glory—the glory of the Only Begotten of the Father—might be fortified, that their faith might be strengthened to prepare them for the insults and humiliating events which were to follow.

We learn from what has been written that the Savior, finding a secluded place, knelt and prayed; and as He prayed to His Father, He was elevated far above the doubt and wickedness of the world which had rejected Him.

We can be elevated above the world to by asking for revelation from our Divine Father in Heaven.