Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Matthew 17:1-8
by: Linda Lawton.
The word Matthew used in verse 2 for transfigured is used three other times in the New Testament. One is when Mark refers to this same incident. The other two both refer to believers’ spiritual transformation: Romans 12:2, where we are commanded to be transformed by the renewing of our minds; and 2 Corinthians 3:18, which talks about us being transformed into the Lord’s image as we gaze upon His glory. Remember this vision of the transfigured Christ, and that you shine as “children of God above reproach in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you appear as lights in the world” (Philippians 2:15b).