As on the previous day he shot a duck and it fell into the lake. The dog walked over the water and got it. His neighbour didn't say a word. The story of the transfiguration of Jesus is a difficult one to talk about. Well - although the events on the mountain were very special and out of the ordinary, in another way they were rather simple, and not as uncommon as many of us might think.
Lets look at the story for a minute.
Jesus went away to pray - as he so often did, and he invited Peter, James, and John to come with him, and they went up a mountain away from the crowds, and there Jesus began to pray. We do not know exactly what he prayed about, but we can guess from the rest of the story, that it must have been about the decision he knew he had to make very soon, the decision to go to Jerusalem and face his death. Jesus had told his disciples only a few days earlier. He was surely praying about these things, and about what it meant for him and his friends, when his face began to shine, and all around him a bright light radiated, and in the midst of that light, two men - Moses and Elijah, appear and they speak to him. We are told that they spoke to Jesus about all that was to happen to him in Jerusalem, and that Peter and James and John, who, as usual, were nodding off, wake up enough to see this happening, to see Jesus in this glorious moment.