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March 2, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — People who try to dismiss the Bible as an artifact of the past often fail to recognize parallels between the circumstances under which Scripture was written and conditions in our own time. The Gospel story read recently at Mass (Mark 9:2-10) illustrates the point.
This is the famous Transfiguration scene, where the disciples, Peter, James and John, are given a vision of Christ’s divine nature.
It’s impossible for us to know the exact order in which events occurred in Jesus’ ministry. Nobody was maintaining a diary at the time. At least we have no evidence of any such record.
But in Mark’s telling, this mountaintop revelation is recounted immediately after Peter’s objection to going to Jerusalem where, Jesus predicted, he was going to die. Why did Mark link these two incidents?
The earliest of the four Gospels, Mark’s account was written in Rome sometime between 65 and 70 A.D. Those years were the period of the Emperor Nero’s persecution of Rome’s Christian community.
This was a truly horrific event, complete with crucifixions, people being thrown
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