Matthew 17:1-18 ▼

1 And after sixe dayes, Iesus taketh Peter, Iames, and Iohn his brother, and bryngeth them vp into an hye mountayne, out of the way,

2 And was transfigured before them, and his face did shyne as the sunne, and his clothes were as whyte as the lyght.

3 And beholde, there appeared vnto them, Moyses, and Elias talkyng with hym.

4 Then aunswered Peter, and sayde vnto Iesus: Lorde, it is good for vs to be here. If thou wylt, let vs make here three tabernacles: one for thee, and one for Moyses, and one for Elias.

5 Whyle he yet spake, beholde, a bryght cloude shadowed them: And beholde, there came a voyce out of the cloude, which sayde, this is my beloued sonne in whom I am well pleased, heare hym.

6 And when the disciples hearde these thynges they fell on their face, and were sore afrayde.

7 And Iesus came, and touched them, and sayde: aryse, and be not afrayde.

8 And when they had lyft vp their eyes, they sawe no man, saue Iesus only.

9 And when they came downe from the mountayne, Iesus charged them, saying: shewe the vision to no man, vntyll the sonne of man be rysen agayne from the dead.

10 And his disciples asked hym, saying: Why then say the scribes, that Elias must first come?

11 Iesus aunswered, & sayde vnto them: Elias truely shall first come, and restore all thynges:

12 But I say vnto you, that Elias is come alredy, and they knewe hym not, but haue done vnto hym, whatsoeuer they lusted.

13 Lykewyse, shall also the sonne of man suffer of them. Then the disciples vnderstode, that he spake vnto them of Iohn Baptist.

14 And when they were come to the people, there came to hym a certayne man, knelyng downe to hym, and saying:

15 Lorde, haue mercy on my sonne, for he is lunaticke, and sore vexed: for oft tymes he falleth into the fyre, and oft into the water.

16 And I brought hym to thy disciples, and they coulde not heale hym.

17 Iesus aunswered and sayde: O faythlesse and croked nation, howe long shall I be with you? howe long shal I suffer you? bryng hym hyther to me.

18 And Iesus rebuked the deuyll, and he departed out of hym: And the chylde was healed euen that same tyme.