More than 30 years after the transfiguration, Peter wrote: “It was not by following artfully contrived false stories that we acquainted you with the power and presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, but it was by having become eyewitnesses of his magnificence.
پس از گذشت بیش از ۳۰ سال از تغییر هیئت عیسی ،‏ پطرس رسول نوشت :‏ « در پی افسانه‌های جعلی نرفتیم چون از قوّت و آمدن خداوند ما عیسی مسیح شما را اعلام دادیم ،‏ بلکه کبریائئ او را دیده بودیم .‏