<p>9:36 <i>And when the voice came, Jesus was found alone- </i>He was the word made flesh. The law and the prophets were fulfilled in Him, and so the voice of God as it were made Elijah and Moses to exit. Matthew says: &quot;No one, save Jesus only&quot;. In the Greek as well as in translation, this is really labouring the point. The &ldquo;save / only&rdquo;,&nbsp;<i>monos</i>, is redundant- they saw &lsquo;nobody except Jesus&rsquo; is a statement which needs no further qualification, indeed grammatically it almost&nbsp;cannot&nbsp;be given further qualification, and reads awkwardly because of the&nbsp;monos, &ldquo;only&rdquo;, that is added. But the word &ldquo;only&rdquo; is added to emphasize that their focus was solely upon Him. That was the purpose of the event, and it had been achieved. Christ centeredness is the ultimate, final and total issue of our experience of Him, the Law and the prophets. The transfiguration ends with this total focus&nbsp;monos&nbsp;upon Christ; this was the practical effect of the theophany. John&rsquo;s Gospel doesn&rsquo;t record the transfiguration, but as so often, it is indeed alluded to. For John&rsquo;s Gospel is full of references to seeing glory, to hearing the Son. It&rsquo;s as if John presents Jesus to us a constant theophany, not one that three of the best disciples go up a mountain to see for a short period, but one which is continually before each of us, and which according to Paul&rsquo;s allusions to it, draws us into its very process. For we too are transfigured as we like the disciples behold the Lord&rsquo;s transfiguration (Rom. 12:2; 2 Cor. 3:18 s.w.).</p><p><i>And they kept quiet and told no one in those days any of the things which they had seen</i>- <i>&quot;</i>To no one&quot; maybe connects with the fact that they saw &ldquo;no man&rdquo; except Jesus (Mk. 9:8); and so they are asked to tell the vision to &ldquo;no man&rdquo; until after the Lord&rsquo;s resurrection. It could be that the Lord wanted them to retain their focus upon Him by not telling others but instead meditating personally upon what they had seen. The vision had been of the Lord&rsquo;s resurrection glory- we noted above the similarities in language to the shining garments of the Angels at the resurrection scene. The Lord didn&rsquo;t want people to think that He had already attained that glory without the cross. Even though in prospect He had that glory, He was insistent that no impression be given that He could attain it without passing through the cross. This was particularly important for Peter to appreciate, who several times entertained a hope that glory was possible for the Lord without the cross.</p>