Chapter 17

  And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, and James, and John his brother, and doth bring them up to a high mount by themselves,  

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  and he was transfigured before them, and his face shone as the sun, and his garments did become white as the light,  

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  and lo, appear to them did Moses and Elijah, talking together with him.  

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  And Peter answering said to Jesus, 'Sir, it is good to us to be here; if thou wilt, we may make here three booths -- for thee one, and for Moses one, and one for Elijah.'  

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  While he is yet speaking, lo, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and lo, a voice out of the cloud, saying, 'This is My Son, -- the Beloved, in whom I did delight; hear him.'  

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  And the disciples having heard, did fall upon their face, and were exceedingly afraid,  

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  and Jesus having come near, touched them, and said, 'Rise, be not afraid,'  

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  and having lifted up their eyes, they saw no one, except Jesus only.  

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  And as they are coming down from the mount, Jesus charged them, saying, 'Say to no one the vision, till the Son of Man out of the dead may rise.'  

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  And his disciples questioned him, saying, 'Why then do the scribes say that Elijah it behoveth to come first?'  

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  And Jesus answering said to them, 'Elijah doth indeed come first, and shall restore all things,  

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  and I say to you -- Elijah did already come, and they did not know him, but did with him whatever they would, so also the Son of Man is about to suffer by them.'  

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  Then understood the disciples that concerning John the Baptist he spake to them.  

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  And when they came unto the multitude, there came to him a man, kneeling down to him,  

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  and saying, 'Sir, deal kindly with my son, for he is lunatic, and doth suffer miserably, for often he doth fall into the fire, and often into the water,  

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  and I brought him near to thy disciples, and they were not able to heal him.'  

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  And Jesus answering said, 'O generation, unstedfast and perverse, till when shall I be with you? till when shall I bear you? bring him to me hither;'  

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  and Jesus rebuked him, and the demon went out of him, and the lad was healed from that hour.  

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  Then the disciples having come to Jesus by himself, said, 'Wherefore were we not able to cast him out?'  

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  And Jesus said to them, 'Through your want of faith; for verily I say to you, if ye may have faith as a grain of mustard, ye shall say to this mount, Remove hence to yonder place, and it shall remove, and nothing shall be impossible to you,  

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  and this kind doth not go forth except in prayer and fasting.'  

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  And while they are living in Galilee, Jesus said to them, 'The Son of Man is about to be delivered up to the hands of men,  

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  and they shall kill him, and the third day he shall rise,' and they were exceeding sorry.  

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  And they having come to Capernaum, those receiving the didrachms came near to Peter, and said, 'Your teacher -- doth he not pay the didrachms?' He saith, 'Yes.'  

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  And when he came into the house, Jesus anticipated him, saying, 'What thinkest thou, Simon? the kings of the earth -- from whom do they receive custom or poll-tax? from their sons or from the strangers?'  

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  Peter saith to him, 'From the strangers.' Jesus said to him, 'Then are the sons free;  

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  but, that we may not cause them to stumble, having gone to the sea, cast a hook, and the fish that hath come up first take thou up, and having opened its mouth, thou shalt find a stater, that having taken, give to them for me and thee.'  

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