| 1 | And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, and James, and John his brother, and doth bring them up to a high mount by themselves, |
| 2 | and he was transfigured before them, and his face shone as the sun, and his garments did become white as the light, |
| 3 | and lo, appear to them did Moses and Elijah, talking together with him. |
| 4 | And Peter answering said to Jesus, `Sir, it is good to us to be here; if thou wilt, we may make here three booths -- for thee one, and for Moses one, and one for Elijah.` |
| 5 | While he is yet speaking, lo, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and lo, a voice out of the cloud, saying, `This is My Son, -- the Beloved, in whom I did delight; hear him.` |
| 6 | And the disciples having heard, did fall upon their face, and were exceedingly afraid, |
| 7 | and Jesus having come near, touched them, and said, `Rise, be not afraid,` |
| 8 | and having lifted up their eyes, they saw no one, except Jesus only. |
| 9 | And as they are coming down from the mount, Jesus charged them, saying, `Say to no one the vision, till the Son of Man out of the dead may rise.` |
| 10 | And his disciples questioned him, saying, `Why then do the scribes say that Elijah it behoveth to come first?` |
| 11 | And Jesus answering said to them, `Elijah doth indeed come first, and shall restore all things, |
| 12 | and I say to you -- Elijah did already come, and they did not know him, but did with him whatever they would, so also the Son of Man is about to suffer by them.` |
| 13 | Then understood the disciples that concerning John the Baptist he spake to them. |
| 14 | And when they came unto the multitude, there came to him a man, kneeling down to him, |
| 15 | and saying, `Sir, deal kindly with my son, for he is lunatic, and doth suffer miserably, for often he doth fall into the fire, and often into the water, |
| 16 | and I brought him near to thy disciples, and they were not able to heal him.` |
| 17 | And Jesus answering said, `O generation, unstedfast and perverse, till when shall I be with you? till when shall I bear you? bring him to me hither;` |
| 18 | and Jesus rebuked him, and the demon went out of him, and the lad was healed from that hour. |
| 19 | Then the disciples having come to Jesus by himself, said, `Wherefore were we not able to cast him out?` |
| 20 | And Jesus said to them, `Through your want of faith; for verily I say to you, if ye may have faith as a grain of mustard, ye shall say to this mount, Remove hence to yonder place, and it shall remove, and nothing shall be impossible to you, |
| 21 | and this kind doth not go forth except in prayer and fasting.` |
| 22 | And while they are living in Galilee, Jesus said to them, `The Son of Man is about to be delivered up to the hands of men, |
| 23 | and they shall kill him, and the third day he shall rise,` and they were exceeding sorry. |
| 24 | And they having come to Capernaum, those receiving the didrachms came near to Peter, and said, `Your teacher -- doth he not pay the didrachms?` He saith, `Yes.` |
| 25 | And when he came into the house, Jesus anticipated him, saying, `What thinkest thou, Simon? the kings of the earth -- from whom do they receive custom or poll-tax? from their sons or from the strangers?` |
| 26 | Peter saith to him, `From the strangers.` Jesus said to him, `Then are the sons free; |
| 27 | but, that we may not cause them to stumble, having gone to the sea, cast a hook, and the fish that hath come up first take thou up, and having opened its mouth, thou shalt find a stater, that having taken, give to them for me and thee.` |
