And after six days Jesus took with him Peter and James, and John his brother, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. The six days after Caesarea Philippi creates a deliberate connection between the passion prediction and the transfiguration: the disciples who heard the suffering Christ's teaching are now taken up the mountain to see the glorified Christ. The inner circle of three — Peter, James, and John — are the same three who will be taken to Gethsemane (Matthew 26:37). The high mountain communicates the significance of the experience: mountains are the places of divine encounter in Matthew's Gospel.

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