“After six days, Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John his brother, and brought them up into a high mountain by themselves.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Matthew 17 contains 27 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.