When he told them not to breathe a word about the transfiguration “until the son of man is raised from the dead,” they discussed among themselves, in some puzzlement, what this “rising from the dead” might mean.8 It wasn’t that they didn’t know about resurrection. It was rather that they had never thought—despite Herod’s supposed remark about John the Baptist—that, as Jesus seemed to be implying, it was something that would happen to one person ahead of everybody else.
