2 Peter 1:17

For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when there was borne such a voice to him by the Majestic Glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased:

Although our English versions translate this passage in consonance with the Matthew account of the transfiguration, the scholars assure us of very subtle variations in the Greek. Peter was not copying anyone! as Plummer said, "He did not slavishly follow any of the three accounts, which a forger would have been expected to do."[49] Robinson also affirmed that, "It is generally accepted that the wording of this account of the transfiguration is independent of any of our gospel texts."[50] And why not? Peter was there; his account did not need to be modeled after anything except his own remembrance of it.

Peter's introduction of the events of the transfiguration calls attention to the great spiritual meaning of it. Moses and Elijah, great representatives of the Law and of the Prophets, appeared there with Christ, and in effect laid their commissions at the feet of the Redeemer. When the cloud overshadowed them and then lifted, both Moses and Elijah were seen no more; and the voice hailed Jesus as the "beloved Son," with instructions to "hear ye him." The clear import of all that was that with the coming of Christ in his incarnation, Moses and Elijah were no longer to be heard, but Jesus only. Strangely, Peter left out the words, "hear ye him" in his mention of the event here; and as Robinson said, if any forger had been writing this, the temptation to have included those words would have been "irresistible."[51] This is a telling argument against the theory of pseudonymity.

[49] Alfred Plummer, op. cit., p. 448.

[50] John A. T. Robinson, op. cit., p. 177.

[51] Ibid.