Matthew 17:5
While he is yet speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and behold, a voice out of the cloud, saying, “This is My Son, the Beloved, in whom I delighted; hear Him.”
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
6And the disciples having heard, fell on their face, and were exceedingly afraid,
Cross References
Exodus 40:34And the cloud covers the Tent of Meeting, and the glory of YHWH has filled the Dwelling Place;
Deuteronomy 5:22YHWH has spoken these words to all your assembly in the mountain, out of the midst of the fire, [and] of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, [with] a great voice; and He has not added; and He writes them on two tablets of stone and gives them to me.
Deuteronomy 18:19and it has been [that] the man who does not listen to My words which He speaks in My Name, I require [it] of him.
Job 38:1And YHWH answers Job out of the whirlwind and says:
Psalms 81:7In distress you have called and I deliver you, || I answer you in the secret place of thunder, || I try you by the waters of Meribah. Selah.
Isaiah 42:21YHWH has delight for the sake of His righteousness, || He magnifies law, and makes honorable.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 17:2-14
The Transfiguration of Christ. 1 And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into a high mountain apart, 2 And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light. 3 And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him. 4 Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here: if thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias. 5… Read the whole commentary →