Lukas 9:28-29

The Transfiguration

9:28 Now ¹  about eight days ²  after these sayings, Jesus ³  took with him Peter, John, and James, and went up the mountain to pray. 9:29 As ⁴  he was praying, ⁵  the appearance of his face was transformed, ⁶  and his clothes became very bright, a brilliant white. ⁷ 

Yohanes 12:27-28

12:27 “Now my soul is greatly distressed. And what should I say? ‘Father, deliver me ⁸  from this hour’? ⁹  No, but for this very reason I have come to this hour. ¹⁰  12:28 Father, glorify your name.” Then a voice came from heaven, ¹¹  “I have glorified it, ¹²  and I will glorify it ¹³  again.”

[9:28]  ¹ tn Grk “Now it happened that about.” The introductory phrase ἐγένετο (egeneto, “it happened that”), common in Luke (69 times) and Acts (54 times), is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.

[9:28]  ² tn Matt 17:1 and Mark 9:2 specify the interval more exactly, saying it was the sixth day. Luke uses ὡσεί (Jwsei, “about”) to give an approximate reference.

[9:28]  ³ tn Grk “he”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[9:29]  ⁴ tn Grk “And as.” Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

[9:29]  ⁵ tn Here the preposition ἐν (en) plus the dative articular aorist infinitive has been translated as a temporal clause (ExSyn 595).

[9:29]  ⁶ tn Or “the appearance of his face became different.”

[9:29]  sn In 1st century Judaism and in the NT, there was the belief that the righteous get new, glorified bodies in order to enter heaven (1 Cor 15:42-49; 2 Cor 5:1-10). This transformation means the righteous will share the glory of God. One recalls the way Moses shared the Lord’s glory after his visit to the mountain in Exod 34. So the disciples saw the appearance of his face transformed, and they were getting a sneak preview of the great glory that Jesus would have (only his glory is more inherent to him as one who shares in the rule of the kingdom).

[9:29]  ⁷ tn Or “became bright as a flash of lightning” (cf. BDAG 346 s.v. ἐξαστράπτω); or “became brilliant as light” (cf. BDAG 593 s.v. λευκός 1).

[12:27]  ⁸ tn Or “save me.”

[12:27]  ⁹ tn Or “this occasion.”

[12:27]  sn Father, deliver me from this hour. It is now clear that Jesus’ hour has come – the hour of his return to the Father through crucifixion, death, resurrection, and ascension (see 12:23). This will be reiterated in 13:1 and 17:1. Jesus states (employing words similar to those of Ps 6:4) that his soul is troubled. What shall his response to his imminent death be? A prayer to the Father to deliver him from that hour? No, because it is on account of this very hour that Jesus has come. His sacrificial death has always remained the primary purpose of his mission into the world. Now, faced with the completion of that mission, shall he ask the Father to spare him from it? The expected answer is no.

[12:27]  ¹⁰ tn Or “this occasion.”

[12:28]  ¹¹ tn Or “from the sky” (see note on 1:32).

[12:28]  ¹² tn “It” is not in the Greek text. Direct objects were often omitted in Greek when clear from the context.

[12:28]  ¹³ tn “It” is not in the Greek text. Direct objects were often omitted in Greek when clear from the context.