What Does Mark 9:2 Mean in the King James?
And after six days Jesus taketh with him Peter, and James, and John, and leadeth them up into an high mountain apart by themselves: and he was transfigured before them.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The six days and mountain quietly place Jesus inside Sinai’s revelation pattern, while “transfigured” makes the revelation visible in his own form.
THE MEANING
This verse speaks through a sequence of ascent, separation, and disclosure: Jesus is led up with three companions, and they see his form change. The six days echo Sinai, where glory rests on the mountain before Moses is called into the cloud. Here, revelation becomes visible to witnesses.
THE ROOT
μετεμορφώθη
metemorphōthē
GROWS FROM
μορφ-
morph-
Form or shape; the way something is configured and made perceptible.
“transfigured” in this verse is metemorphōthē. The verb combines μετά (meta, change) with μορφή (morphē, form): Jesus undergoes a change of form before the witnesses. The same verb later names transformation through renewed thought and through beholding the Lord’s glory, linking visible revelation with a change that reaches the beholder.
ALSO GROWS
morphē: Form or shape.
μορφή
In Philippians 2:6 the same form-word describes Christ’s form; it lets “transfigured” carry the sense of form becoming manifest, not merely a change in brightness.
metamorphoō: To transform or change form.
μεταμορφόω
Romans 12:2 uses this same verb for being transformed through the renewing of the mind, joining the mountain’s visible change to transformation within.
THE PATTERN
Encounter with divine glory makes transformation visible and can leave the beholder changed.
And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses’ hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him.And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.THE THREAD
But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.The Greek verb rendered “transfigured” here is the same verb rendered “changed” in this verse. Mark shows the change visibly in Jesus; here the same root names people being changed as they behold the Lord’s glory.
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