Year B can be particularly jarring as we move from the early story of Jesus’ ministry (not even getting out of chapter 1 in the Mark) and then jumping into the middle of the Gospel with the transfiguration. We skip over a lot: Teaching parables, the exorcism of Legion, the healing of Jairus’ daughter and the woman with hemorrhages, commissioning the twelve, Herod’s execution of John the Baptist, the feeding of the 5,000 (and 4,000), the Syrophoenician woman, and Peter’s declaration of Jesus as the Messiah. Incredible stories and great imagery. While these are important, in many ways these are stories that already expound upon who we have seen Jesus to be even within just the first chapter. So what does the transfiguration show us that's different?