The Transfiguration :Mark 9.2-13

Question 1

The transfiguration ; happened when?

Answer 1

took place shortly after Peter declared Jesus to be the Mesiah

Question 2

Transfiguration also

Answer 2

teaches about Jesus ‘ divine identity as God’s son

Question 3

Who was at the Transfiguration

Answer 3

Moses ( rhe law) Elijah (the prophets)

Question 4

What significance does that have that Moses and Elijah are at the Transfiguration?

Answer 4

They endorse who Jesus is and that he is ranked alongside them as being the fulfillment of law and prophecy

Question 5

Where did it take place

Answer 5

|Mount Hermon (to give Jesus privacy from the crowds)

Question 6

What dores Transfiguration mean?

Answer 6

Change of appearence: jesus’ clothes became a dazzling white

Question 7

How does Moses represent the law

Answer 7

because it was he who received the law on Moiunt Sinai from God himself. The commandemnets were the only way that the Jewish people knew how God wanted them to live.
Moses was the great hero of the Jewish people because he rescued them out of slavery in Egypt

Question 8

What does Elijah represent

Answer 8

Elijah represents the jewish prophets through whom God communicated with the Jewish people

Question 9

Elijah was ?

Answer 9

the most important of the jewish prophets

Question 10

Elijah and the Messiah

Answer 10

The jews believed that Elijah would be present at the coming of the Messiah

Question 11

What did JEsus mean when he told his disciples that Elijah had already come

Answer 11

Jesus would almost certainly have been referring to John the Baptist who told everyone who Jesus was when he baptised him in the River Jordan

Question 12

Explain Peters suggestion to build shelters for Jesus Moses and Elijah

Answer 12

It seems peculiar BUT the idea has its roots in the Old Testament. Before the temple was built the Israelites kept an Ark of the Covenant in a special tent called the Tabernacle. They believed that Gods presence rested within the tabernacle. So when Peter saw Jesus Moses and Elijah wrapped in Gods glory it was tents he thought that were needed

Question 13

What is Sukkot? and why relevant to the Transfiguration?

Answer 13

It is the feast of the tabernacles and remembers this period. When The jews were protected by tents in the deserts and God guided them and protected them after the Exodus.

Question 14

How do we make sense of Peters suggestion to build shelters

Answer 14

The Jews believed that one day God would reveal himself to the people in the tents

Question 15

What was the CLOUD?

Answer 15

The cloud is a symbol of Gods prescence

Question 16

Where else had the cloud appeared?

Answer 16

1) During the EXODUS there had been a cloud that had led the Israelites out of Egypt
2) There had been a cloud at Jesus’s baptism and a voice had spoken from that cloud. God had told his disciples that Jesus was his son whom he loved and they were to listen to him

Question 17

Eplain the conversation on the way down the mountain

Answer 17

The disciples had been told that they would only properly make sense of all of this after the Ressurection

Question 18

Why did Jesus tell the disciples not to speak of what they had seen until after the ressurection?

Answer 18

The disciples had been told that they would only properly make sense of all of this after the Ressurection

Question 19

What was made clear to the disciples after the Ressurection

Answer 19

It was clear that Jesus had been talking about him RISING from the dead NOT about the Ressurection at end of the world. They were amazed

Question 20

What does SON OF MAN mean?

Answer 20

This is a description that Jesus uses to describe himself. It is an old testament title and in using it Jesus is identifying with human suffering.

Jesus was the perfect example of how Gods will can be carried out by human beings in the world.

He was saying that his path was that of suffering and death not worldly glory and fame, but the disciples missed the point