The King is transfigured
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📚✭And after six days Jesus took Peter, James, and John his brother, and led them up into a high mountain by themselves, 2 📚✭and was transfigured in their presence. And his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became as white as the light. 3 📚✭And suddenly Moses and Elijah appeared to them, talking with him.4 📚✭Then Peter, responding, said to Jesus, “Lord, it is good for us to be here. If you are willing, let us make three tabernacles here, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah”.
5 📚✭While he was still speaking, suddenly a bright cloud covered them in shadow, and then a voice from the cloud said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased. Listen to him”.
6 📚✭And when the disciples heard it, they fell on their face, and were very frightened. 7 📚✭And Jesus came and touched them and said, “Get up and do not be frightened”.
8 📚✭And when they had raised their eyes, they saw no one except Jesus alone.
The King speaks of Elijah and John the Baptist
9 📚✭And as they were coming down from the mountain, Jesus gave them an order, saying, “Do not tell the vision to anyone until the Son of man has risen from the dead”.
10 📚And his disciples asked him, saying, “Why then do the scribes say that Elijah must first come✭?”
11 📚✭And Jesus answered and said to them, “Elijah indeed comes first and restores all things. 12 📚But I tell you that Elijah has already come, and they did not recognize him, but did to him whatever they wished. In the same way the Son of man also will suffer at their hands”.
13 📚Then the disciples understood that he was speaking to them about John✭ the Baptist.
The King heals a boy and teaches about prayer and driving out demons
14 📚And when they came to the crowd, a man came up to him, knelt down to him and said, 15 📚“Lord, have mercy on my son. For he is a lunatic✭, and suffers miserably. For he often falls in the fire, and often in the water. 16 📚And I brought him to your disciples, but they could not cure him”.
17 📚✭Then Jesus answered and said, “Faithless and perverse generation! How long shall I be with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring him here to me”.
18 📚And Jesus rebuked the demon, and it went out of him. And the child was cured from that very time.
19 📚✭Then the disciples came to Jesus privately, and said, “Why could we not drive it out?”
20 📚And Jesus said to them, “Because of your unbelief✭ . For truly I say to you, if you have faith as much as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there’, and it will move, and nothing will be impossible to you. 21 However this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting”.
The King foretells His death
22 📚✭And while they were staying in Galilee, Jesus said to them, “The Son of man will be betrayed into the hands of men, 23 📚and they will kill him, and the third day he will be raised”. And they were plunged into deep sadness.
The King teaches about taxes
24 📚✭And when they came to Capernaum, those who collected the temple tax came to Peter and said, “Doesn't your teacher pay the temple tax?”
25 📚✭He said, “Yes”. And when he had come into the house, Jesus was the first to speak, “What do you think, Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth take customs or taxes? From their own children, or from foreigners?”
26 ✭Peter said to him, “From foreigners”. Jesus said to him, “Then the children are exempt. 27 📚✭But so we will not be a stumbling block to them, go to the lake, put in a hook, and take the first fish that comes up. And when you have opened its mouth, you will find a piece of money. Take that and give it to them for me and you”.