1 After six days, Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John his brother, and brought them up into a high mountain by themselves. 2 He was changed before them. His face shone like the sun, and his garments became as white as the light. 3 Behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them talking with him.

4 Peter answered and said to Jesus, "Lord, it is good for us to be here. If you want, let’s make three tents here: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah."

5 While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. Behold, a voice came out of the cloud, saying, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him."

6 When the disciples heard it, they fell on their faces, and were very afraid. 7 Jesus came and touched them and said, "Get up, and don’t be afraid." 8 Lifting up their eyes, they saw no one, except Jesus alone.

9 As they were coming down from the mountain, Jesus commanded them, saying, "Don’t tell anyone what you saw, until the Son of Man has risen from the dead."

10 His disciples asked him, saying, "Then why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?"

11 Jesus answered them, "Elijah indeed comes first, and will restore all things; 12 but I tell you that Elijah has come already, and they didn’t recognize him, but did to him whatever they wanted to. Even so the Son of Man will also suffer by them." 13 Then the disciples understood that he spoke to them of John the Baptizer.

14 When they came to the multitude, a man came to him, kneeling down to him and saying, 15 "Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is epileptic and suffers grievously; for he often falls into the fire, and often into the water. 16 So I brought him to your disciples, and they could not cure him."

17 Jesus answered, "Faithless and perverse generation! How long will I be with you? How long will I bear with you? Bring him here to me." 18 Jesus rebuked the demon, and it went out of him, and the boy was cured from that hour.

19 Then the disciples came to Jesus privately, and said, "Why weren’t we able to cast it out?"

20 He said to them, "Because of your unbelief. For most certainly I tell you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will tell this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you. 21 But this kind doesn’t go out except by prayer and fasting."

22 While they were staying in Galilee, Jesus said to them, "The Son of Man is about to be delivered up into the hands of men, 23 and they will kill him, and the third day he will be raised up."

They were exceedingly sorry.

24 When they had come to Capernaum, those who collected the didrachma coins came to Peter, and said, "Doesn’t your teacher pay the didrachma?" 25 He said, "Yes."

When he came into the house, Jesus anticipated him, saying, "What do you think, Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth receive toll or tribute? From their children, or from strangers?"

26 Peter said to him, "From strangers."

Jesus said to him, "Therefore the children are exempt. 27 But, lest we cause them to stumble, go to the sea, cast a hook, and take up the first fish that comes up. When you have opened its mouth, you will find a stater coin. Take that, and give it to them for me and you."

1 En n ses dae het Jesus vir Petrus en Jakobus en Johannes, sy broer, saamgeneem en hulle op 'n hoë berg in die eensaamheid gebring.

2 En Hy het voor hulle van gedaante verander, en sy aangesig het geblink soos die son, en sy klere het wit geword soos die lig.

3 En kyk, daar verskyn aan hulle Moses en El¡a in gesprek met Hom.

4 Toe begin Petrus vir Jesus te sê: Here, dit is goed dat ons hier is; as U wil, laat ons hier drie hutte maak: vir U een en vir Moses een en een vir El¡a.

5 Terwyl hy nog spreek, oordek 'n helderligte wolk hulle meteens en daar sê 'n stem uit die wolk: Dit is my geliefde Seun in wie Ek 'n welbehae het. Luister na Hom!

6 En toe die dissipels dit hoor, het hulle op hul aangesig geval en was baie bevrees.

7 En Jesus het nader gekom en hulle aangeraak en gesê: Staan op en moenie vrees nie.

8 Toe slaan hulle hul oë op en sien niemand meer nie, behalwe Jesus alleen.

9 En onderwyl hulle van die berg afklim, het Jesus hulle bevel gegee en gesê: Julle moet vir niemand iets van die gesig sê voordat die Seun van die mens uit die dode opgestaan het nie.

10 En sy dissipels vra Hom en sê: Waarom sê die skrifgeleerdes dan dat El¡a eers moet kom?

11 En Jesus antwoord en sê vir hulle: Dis waar, El¡a kom eers en sal alles herstel;

12 maar Ek sê vir julle dat El¡a al gekom het, en hulle het hom nie erken nie, maar aan hom alles gedoen wat hulle wou. So sal die Seun van die mens ook deur hulle ly.

13 Toe verstaan die dissipels dat Hy met hulle van Johannes die Doper gespreek het.

14 En toe hulle by die skare kom, gaan daar 'n man na Hom en val voor Hom op die knieë en sê:

15 Here, ontferm U oor my seun, want hy is maansiek en ly swaar; want dikwels val hy in die vuur en dikwels in die water.

16 En ek het hom na u dissipels gebring, en hulle kon hom nie gesond maak nie.

17 Toe antwoord Jesus en sê: o Ongelowige en verdraaide geslag, hoe lank sal Ek by julle wees, hoe lank sal Ek julle verdra? Bring hom hier vir My.

18 Daarop bestraf Jesus hom; en die duiwel het van hom uitgegaan, en die seun het gesond geword van daardie uur af.

19 Toe kom die dissipels na Jesus afsonderlik en sê: Waarom kon ons hom nie uitdryf nie?

20 En Jesus antwoord hulle: Deur julle ongeloof; want, voorwaar Ek sê vir julle, as julle geloof het soos 'n mosterdsaad sal julle vir hierdie berg sê: Gaan weg hiervandaan daarnatoe! en hy sal weggaan, en niks sal vir julle onmoontlik wees nie.

21 Maar hierdie geslag gaan nie uit behalwe deur gebed en vas nie.

22 En terwyl hulle in Galil,a rondgaan, het Jesus vir hulle gesê: Die Seun van die mens sal oorgelewer word in die hande van die mense;

23 en hulle sal Hom doodmaak, en op die derde dag sal Hy opstaan. En hulle het baie bedroef geword.

24 En toe hulle in Kap,rnam kom, het die wat die tempelbelasting ontvang, na Petrus gegaan en gesê: Betaal julle Meester nie die tempelbelasting nie?

25 Hy antwoord: Ja. En toe hy in die huis inkom, was Jesus hom voor en sê: Wat dink jy, Simon? Van wie neem die konings van die aarde tol of belasting -- van hulle seuns of van die vreemdelinge?

26 Petrus antwoord Hom: Van die vreemdelinge. Jesus sê vir hom: Dan is die seuns vry.

27 Maar dat ons hulle geen aanstoot mag gee nie, gaan na die see toe, gooi 'n hoek uit en neem die eerste vis wat opkom; en as jy sy bek oopmaak, sal jy 'n stater kry; neem dit en gee dit aan hulle vir My en vir jou.