After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John his brother, and led them up a high mountain by themselves.
And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became dazzling white.
Suddenly there appeared to them Moses and Elijah, talking with him.
Then Peter said to Jesus, “Lord, it is good for us to be here; if you wish, I will make three dwellings here, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”
While he was still speaking, suddenly a bright cloud overshadowed them, and from the cloud a voice said, “This is my Son, the Beloved; with him I am well pleased; listen to him!”
When the disciples heard this, they fell to the ground and were overcome with fear.
But Jesus came and touched them, saying, “Get up and do not be afraid.”
And when they looked up, they saw no one except Jesus himself alone.
As they were coming down the mountain, Jesus ordered them, “Tell no one about the vision until after the Son of Man has been raised from the dead.”
So they kept the matter to themselves, questioning what this rising from the dead meant.
Then the disciples asked Jesus, “Why, then, do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”
He replied, “Elijah is indeed coming and will restore all things.
But I tell you that Elijah has already come, and they did not recognize him, but they did to him whatever they pleased. So also the Son of Man is about to suffer at their hands.”
Then the disciples understood that he was speaking to them about John the Baptist.
When they came to the crowd, a man approached Jesus and knelt before him.
“Lord, have mercy on my son,” he said; “he has seizures and suffers terribly; often he falls into the fire or into the water.
I brought him to your disciples, but they could not cure him.”
Jesus answered, “You faithless and perverse generation, how much longer must I be with you? How much longer must I put up with you? Bring the boy here to me.”
Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of the boy, who was healed instantly.
Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and asked, “Why could we not cast it out?”
He said to them, “Because of your little faith. For truly I tell you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.
But this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.”
When they came together in Galilee, Jesus said to them, “The Son of Man is about to be betrayed into human hands,
and they will kill him, and on the third day he will be raised.” And the disciples were filled with grief.
When they came to Capernaum, the collectors of the two-drachma temple tax came to Peter and said, “Does your teacher not pay the temple tax?”
He said, “Yes.” When Peter came into the house, Jesus spoke first, “What do you think, Simon? From whom do kings of the earth collect toll or tribute? From their children or from others?”
When Peter said, “From others,” Jesus said to him, “Then the children are free.
However, so that we do not offend them, go to the sea and cast a hook; take the first fish that comes up, and when you open its mouth, you will find a coin. Take that and give it to them for you and me.”
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