1 Some believers feel that John 1:14‘s “And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory – the glory of a father’s only son” refers to the transfiguration event as well, though a plethora of evidence strongly suggests otherwise. First & foremost, “the Word” mentioned in John 1 was literally the Greek word logos (Strong’s #3056) – at the time of that Gospel’s writing a reference not to Jesus himself or a singular Messianic Savior, but rather to the “divine animator” within all sentient beings that makes them self-aware and gives their consciousness its moral purchase. And John 1 affirms this notion clearly enough – noting that “all things came into being through [the logos]” (John 1:3a), that “what has come into being was a life that was the light of all people” (John 1:3b-4), that this light was “the true light, which enlightens everyone” (John 1:9) and that “from [the logos‘] fullness we have all received, grace upon grace” (John 1:16). This truth is also affirmed by the ancient wording of John 1:14 itself, where the term often translated as “among us” is actually the Greek term en (Strong’s #1787 – see also Luke 17:21) – a word which meant “in” or “within” not “around” or “nearby” or “in the midst of” … Secondly, Jesus made it similarly clear that his message was equally available to everyone, and that the benefits of its implementation had nothing at all to do with worshiping him individually – that even though he was indeed a pure messenger of The Way of Christ (see John 14:6 et al); a Way that was both distinctly different from and vastly superior to the Jewish Law (a la John 1:17‘s “The Law was given through Moses, and yet grace & truth came via Jesus Christ”), he was not himself to be singled out for honor as being an emissary of the same (see Matthew 19:17, Mark 10:18, & Luke 18:19 et al). In truth, Jesus’ vehement sanctification of humility (see Matthew 18:3-4 & Matthew 23:12 et al) along with his open disdain for hypocrisy (see Matthew 23) meant that he rarely if ever referred to himself in the 3^rd person during his ministry’s sermons & teachings.

2 Indeed, Matthew 11:2-5 had already seen Jesus being asked by John “Are you the one who is to come?” (with Jesus’ answer thereto recalling the words of both Isaiah 35:5 & Isaiah 29:18) Matthew 11:10 then goes on to reference “my messenger who will prepare your Way” (see also Luke 7:27) – the same messenger forecast by Malachi 3:1 (“Behold, I send My messenger, and he will prepare the way before Me”) – the same messenger who was identified as Elijah in Malachi 4:5 (also Matthew 11:14 & Mark 9:11) – the same Elijah who Jesus noted was not he himself, but rather John the Baptist, in Matthew 17:10-13 (NOTE the people’s continued misunderstanding of the same in Matthew 27:46-50 & Mark 15:34-37) – meaning that the transfigurative vision of Moses & Elijah was representative of the two divine messengers who had come before Jesus (with the former having offered up the Law, and the latter having “made the way straight” for Jesus’ New Covenant‘s amending transcendence thereof – see Hebrews 8:8-13).

3 Directly recalling Jesus’ baptism (see Matthew 3:13-17, Mark 1:9-11, Luke 3:21-22, & John 1:32-34) – the moment when his ministry of legal transcendence officially took over for John’s and commenced in full.

4 How intriguing that Mark 9:10 notes that “they kept the matter to themselves” and that Luke 9:36 adds that “they kept silent and in those days told no one of the things they had seen” – seeing as how the account could never have made it into those Gospels unless at least one of them had indeed later spoken about said event.