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The Transfiguration of Jesus
This is Jesus in kind of the full glory of his humanity, the one true human being of all history. His clothes then became as white as the light. It's Matthew's way of saying Jesus is even greater than the law and the prophets. The theological function of the transfiguration was to demonstrate to the disciples that the seemingly inauspicious history of Jesus always contained a divine dimension.