“While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.”
He was still speaking when, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and a voice from the cloud said: this is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased; listen to him. The divine interruption of Peter's speech: the bright cloud — the Shekinah glory of the divine presence, the same cloud that filled the tabernacle (Exodus 40:34–35) — overshadows them and the Father speaks. The voice repeats the baptism declaration (Matthew 3:17) with the addition of listen to him. The addition is the answer to Peter's three-tent proposal: the disciples are not to build monuments but to listen to Jesus.
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