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Jesus took Peter, James and John up into a high mountain, where his appearance changed, and they saw him talking to Elijah and Moses, and heard the voice of God saying, "This is my beloved son, hear him."

This mirrors the voice of God at the baptism of Jesus, "Thou art my beloved son" (Mark 1:11), demonstrating that the evangelist intended the two accounts to reinforce each other. Mark 1:13 then tells of Jesus going into the wilderness for forty days, ministered by angels just as Elijah was ministered by an angel and in the wilderness forty days (1 Kings 19:5-7). There is no actual suggestion in Mark that Jesus fasted for this time (Matthew and Luke introduce this later), but those familiar with the story of Elijah are likely to have assumed he did do so. This brings into play the other allusion, to Moses when (Exodus 34:28) he fasted for 40 days while he wrote the words of the Ten Commandments on tablets.


The two parallel events form part of the parallel structure that is the framework of Mark's Gospel.

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