Mat 17:5 Dan tiba-tiba sedang ia berkata-kata turunlah awan yang terang menaungi mereka dan dari dalam awan itu terdengar suara yang berkata: "Inilah Anak yang Kukasihi, kepada-Nyalah Aku berkenan, dengarkanlah Dia."
Kisah diatas adalah kisah transfigurasi Yesus.
Penulis injil hanya mennyebutkan peristiwa itu terjadi di sebuah gunung yang tinggi - tanpa nama (Mat 17:1, Mar 9:2, Luk 9:28) .
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Early Church fathers believed that the Transfiguration took place on Mt. Tabor, including Cyril of Jerusalem (in 348), Epiphanius, and Jerome.
Eusebius was uncertain if it took place on Mt. Tabor or on Mt. Hermon.
One reason for this identification was a misunderstanding of Matthew 17:1.
This verse was taken to mean that Jesus took the disciples up a mountain "by itself," rather than that he took the disciples up a mountain "by themselves."
Mt. Tabor is probably not the location for the Transfiguration:
1) Jesus and his disciples are in the region of Caesarea Philippi just prior to the Transfiguration.
2) The general location of the mountain is not isolated. Much traffic passed by through the Jezreel Valley below.
3) A military fort was located on top of the mountain and was clearly in use during the Hasmonean period and the time of the Jewish Revolt, and likely would have been in Jesus' day as well.
Geographical Areas and Administrative Districts of Palestine Ruled by the Herods | |||
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Southern Samaria, Judea, and Idumea | Northern Galilee and Perea | Northeastern Iturea, Trachonitis, Gaulanitis, Auranitis, Batanea | |
Herod the Great | |||
Archaeleus | Antipas | Philip | |
Roman Governors | |||
Roman Governors | |||
Agrippa I | Agrippa I | ||
Agrippa I | |||
Roman Governors | Roman Governors | Roman Governors | |
Agrippa II | Agrippa II | Governors | |
Jewish Rebellion Against Rome | |||
Province of Palaestina | |||
Colonia Aelia Capitolinia |
The date of the earliest churches on Mt. Tabor is unknown.
The Anonymous Pilgrim of Piacenza saw three basilicas in 570.
Willibaldus, in 723, mentions only one church dedicated to Jesus, Moses, and Elijah. There may have been three chapels joined together into one building, as in the present building. The current church was built in 1924 and belongs to the Franciscans.
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