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But, turning around and looking at his talmidim, he rebuked Kefa. "Get behind me, Satan!" he said, "For your thinking is from a human perspective, not from God's perspective!"

Then Yeshua called the crowd and his talmidim to him and told them, "If anyone wants to come after me, let him say `No' to himself, take up his execution stake, and keep following me.

For whoever wants to save his own life will destroy it, but whoever destroys his life for my sake and for the sake of the Good News will save it.

For if someone is ashamed of me and of what I say in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man also will be ashamed of him when he comes in his Father's glory with the holy angels.

Yes!" he went on, "I tell you that there are some people standing here who will not experience death until they see the Kingdom of God come in a powerful way!"

Six days later, Yeshua took Kefa, Ya`akov and Yochanan and led them up a high mountain privately. As they watched, he began to change form,

and his clothes became dazzlingly white, whiter than anyone in the world could possibly bleach them.

Then they saw Eliyahu and Moshe speaking with Yeshua.

Kefa said to Yeshua, "It's good that we're here, Rabbi! Let's put up three shelters -- one for you, one for Moshe and one for Eliyahu."

Then a cloud enveloped them; and a voice came out of the cloud, "This is my Son, whom I love. Listen to him!"

Suddenly, when they looked around, they no longer saw anyone with them except Yeshua.

As they came down the mountain, he warned them not to tell anyone what they had seen until after the Son of Man had risen from the dead.

They also asked him, "Why do the Torah-teachers say that Eliyahu has to come first?"

"Eliyahu will indeed come first," he answered, "and he will restore everything. Nevertheless, why is it written in the Tanakh that the Son of Man must suffer much and be rejected?

There's more to it: I tell you that Eliyahu has come, and they did whatever they pleased to him, just as the Tanakh says about him."

When they got back to the talmidim, they saw a large crowd around them and some Torah-teachers arguing with them.

As soon as the crowd saw him, they were surprised and ran out to greet him.

He asked them, "What's the discussion about?"

One of the crowd gave him the answer: "Rabbi, I brought my son to you because he has an evil spirit in him that makes him unable to talk.

Whenever it seizes him, it throws him to the ground -- he foams at the mouth, grinds his teeth and becomes stiff all over. I asked your talmidim to drive the spirit out, but they couldn't do it."

"People without any trust!" he responded. "How long will I be with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring him to me!"

They brought the boy to him; and as soon as the spirit saw him, it threw the boy into a convulsion.

Yeshua asked the boy's father, "How long has this been happening to him?" "Ever since childhood," he said;

"and it often tries to kill him by throwing him into the fire or into the water. But if you can do anything, have pity on us and help us!"

Yeshua said to him, "What do you mean, `if you can'? Everything is possible to someone who has trust!"