Stop 62 · The Gospels: Galilee

Banias and Hermon

The transfiguration

Sea of GalileeDead SeaDead SeaGolan1212. Hermon1717. Hazor3434. Tel Dan6262. Banias and HermonBanias and Hermon
From 30,000 feet

At the gates of hell Peter says you are the Christ. Six days later on the high mountain his face shines like the sun. Moses and Elijah come. Listen to him.

Stop 62 of 84. 169 km from Jerusalem. Next stop, Siloam, is 170 km away.

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Mark 9:2-13

2After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John, and brought them up onto a high mountain privately by themselves, and he was changed into another form in front of them. 3His clothing became glistening, exceedingly white, like snow, such as no launderer on earth can whiten them. 4Elijah and Moses appeared to them, and they were talking with Jesus. 5Peter answered Jesus, “Rabbi, it is good for us to be here. Let’s make three tents: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.” 6For he didn’t know what to say, for they were very afraid. 7A cloud came, overshadowing them, and a voice came out of the cloud, “This is my beloved Son. Listen to him.” 8Suddenly looking around, they saw no one with them any more, except Jesus only. 9As they were coming down from the mountain, he commanded them that they should tell no one what things they had seen, until after the Son of Man had risen from the dead. 10They kept this saying to themselves, questioning what the “rising from the dead” meant. 11They asked him, saying, “Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?” 12He said to them, “Elijah indeed comes first, and restores all things. How is it written about the Son of Man, that he should suffer many things and be despised? 13But I tell you that Elijah has come, and they have also done to him whatever they wanted to, even as it is written about him.”

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