Good Shepherd Lutheran Church

Jesus' Transfiguration and The Healing of a Boy With an Evil Spirit are two consecutive but distinct, biblical narratives from the Gospels. All the Gospel writers have these stories in this order and seem to be telling us that they go together. The Transfiguration is a mountaintop experience, where Jesus' transformation along with Elijah and Moses is dramatic and supernatural. The journey down the mountain from this experience was to the valley below where the shrieking of a stubborn demon was inhabiting a child. Although the stories are very different, both mountain tops and dark valleys have a lot in common - they both represent the real life we live in.