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The Transfiguration of Jesus is an event described in the New Testament, where Jesus is transfigured and becomes radiant in glory upon a mountain. [1] [2] The Synoptic Gospels (Matthew 17:1–8, Mark 9:2–13, Luke 9:28–36) recount the occasion, and the Second Epistle of Peter also refers to it.
The Transfiguration of Jesus is a key event in Christian tradition, described in the Gospels of Matthew [3], Mark [4], and Luke [5].It recounts the moment when Jesus, accompanied by three of his disciples — Peter, James, and John — ascends a mountain.
There are some standing here who will not taste death until they see that the kingdom of God has come with (or in) power. [4]Anglican biblical scholar Edward Plumptre argues that this verse should be read with the final section of Mark 8 and suggests that the present arrangement may have been made with a view of connecting it with the Transfiguration as the fulfilment of the promise in this ...
The earliest extant Transfiguration mandorla is at Saint Catherine's Monastery and dates to the sixth century, although such mandorlas may have been depicted even before. [13] The Rabbula Gospels also show a mandorla in its Transfiguration in the late sixth century. These two types of mandorlas became the two standard depictions until the ...
James Burton Coffman suggests that the location of the transfiguration would have been either Mount Hermon, closer to Caesarea Philippi, "or one of its adjacent peaks": "Mount Tabor, in the days of Christ and the apostles was populated and had a fortress on top of it; and Christ's taking his apostles there would not have been taking them 'apart ...
The work therefore represented a return to the unifying values of faith. The painter was accompanied by a Franciscan theologian during the work's production. The work nominally portrays the Transfiguration of Christ , [ 3 ] though it omits the three apostles traditional to paintings of that event and relegates the figures of Moses and Elijah to ...
In the Transfiguration, [217] [138] [139] [158] Jesus takes Peter and two other apostles up an unnamed mountain, where "he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became dazzling white". [218]
"Law", or the Old Covenant, is symbolized on the left, and "Gospel" or "Grace" on the right. The panels illustrate the Lutheran idea that Law is not sufficient for salvation, but Gospel is. [2] As Luther wrote in 1522: The Law is the Word in which God teaches and tells us what we are to do and not to do, as in the Ten Commandments.