Today, I am reading and commenting on Luke 9.

As I was reading today’s passage I noticed something interesting in the account of the transfiguration.  Luke says that Jesus, Moses, and Elijah talked about Jesus’ “departure, which He was about to bring to fulfillment at Jerusalem.”  The NIV has a translator’s footnote by the word, departure.  That footnote says that the Greek word used there is “exodus”.  I think that Luke is intentionally connecting Jesus’ Crucifixion, and later Ascension, to the Israelite Exodus from Egypt.  In the Exodus God redeemed the Israelite people from slavery in Egypt by His mighty power.  In the same way, with Jesus’ death, resurrection, and ascension into heaven, God redeemed all mankind from slavery to sin and death.  If nothing else, Luke is foreshadowing the Last Supper and how Jesus there connected His Crucifixion to the sacrifice of the Passover Lamb.  However, I think there is more to the connection Luke is making to the Exodus than just that.  At the very least, there is a connection between the transformation of Jesus appearance and Moses’ need to wear a veil over his face after communing with God.  In Exodus, it was just Moses’ face which shone unbearably bright from the glory of God, here Luke describes everything about Jesus as shining unbearably bright, even His clothing.  I want to give some more thought about the connection Luke is making between Jesus’ death and resurrection and the Israelite exodus from Egypt.  Perhaps, I will have more insight into that connection the next time I write on the Transfiguration.

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