The Transfiguration
Jesus has turned toward the cross. “From that time”, after Peter’s great confession, “Jesus began to show to His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised on the third day”. For those who trust God the pattern is always cross and then crown, suffering and then victory, death followed by resurrection. From now on Jesus talks a lot about death because it’s the only way to abundant, radiant, everlasting, transfigured life.