Luke 9:29
And as he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was altered, and his raiment was white and glistering.
KJV
καὶ ἐγένετο ἐν τῷ προσεύχεσθαι αὐτὸν τὸ εἶδος τοῦ προσώπου αὐτοῦ ἕτερον καὶ ὁ ἱματισμὸς αὐτοῦ λευκὸς ἐξαστράπτων.
Greek NT
Et facta est, dum oraret, species vultus ejus altera : et vestitus ejus albus et refulgens.
Vulgate
And as he was praying, the fashion of his countenance was altered, and his raiment became white and dazzling.
ASV
And whilst he prayed, the shape of his countenance was altered and his raiment became white and glittering.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
12 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
γίνομαι
ginomai
verb · 667×
εἶδος
eidos
noun · 5×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
λευκός
leukos
adjective · 25×
προσεύχομαι
proseuchomai
verb · 85×
πρόσωπον
prosopon
noun · 77×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ἐξαστράπτω
exastrapto
verb · 1×
ἕτερος
eteros
adjective · 99×
ἱματισμός
imatismos
noun · 5×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
Theophany
Miracle
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
1. Concerning Those Who Asked Him to Show Them a Sign from Heaven. And the Sadducees and Pharisees came, and tempting Him kept asking Him to show them a sign from heaven. Matthew 16:1 The Sadducees and Pharisees who disagreed with each other in regard to the most essential truths, — for the Pharisees champion the doctrine of the resurrection of the dead, hoping that there will …
Cross-references
- 2Cor 3:7 — But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glo
- 2Pet 1:16 — For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
- Acts 6:15 — And all that sat in the council, looking stedfastly on him, saw his face as it had been the face of an angel.
- Exod 34:29 — And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses’ hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while
- Exod 34:29 — And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses’ hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while
- Isa 33:17 — Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off.
- Isa 53:2 — For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
- John 1:14 — And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
- Judg 13:6 — Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God came unto me, and his countenance was like the countenance of an angel of God, very terrible: but I asked him not whence he was, neither
- Mark 9:2 — And after six days Jesus taketh with him Peter, and James, and John, and leadeth them up into an high mountain apart by themselves: and he was transfigured before them.
- Mark 16:12 — After that he appeared in another form unto two of them, as they walked, and went into the country.
- Matt 17:2 — And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.
- Matt 17:2 — And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.
- Phil 3:7 — But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
- Rev 1:13 — And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.
- Rev 20:11 — And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.