What do these verses from Mark mean?

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“Those who have not will forfeit even what they have.”
“A prophet never lacks honour, except in his hometown.”

What is the significance of the transfiguration?

 

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Those who have not will forfeit even what they have.

We’re supposed to develop our spiritual gifts. If we neglect them, we’ll lose them.

 

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“Those who have not will forfeit even what they have.”
“A prophet never lacks honour, except in his hometown.”

What is the significance of the transfiguration?

At the Transfiguration were Jesus, Peter, James, John, and appeared Elijah and Moses. Jesus explained to Peter, James, and John that Elijah had already come. And there was a revelation:

Matthew 17, 5 And as he was yet speaking, behold a bright cloud overshadowed them. And lo, a voice out of the cloud, saying: This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased: hear ye him.

Haydock Commentary on Matt 25, Verse 29

To every one that hath, &c. That is, who hath, so as to have made good use of, or to have improved, what was committed to his trust and management. See the notes Matthew xiii, ver. 12. (Witham)
— When those who are gifted with the grace of understanding for the benefit of others, refuse to make a proper use of the gift, that grace is of consequence withdrawn; whereas had they employed it with zeal and diligence, they would have received additional graces. (St. John Chrysostom, hom. lxxix.)
— This, moreover, shews that God never requires of men more than he has enabled them to perform.

Haydock Commentary on John 4, Verse 44

For Jesus himself gave testimony, &c. The connexion and reason given here by the word for , is obscure, when it is said, Jesus went into Galilee and gave testimony that a prophet hath no honour in his own country. One would think this should not be a reason for his going into Galilee, but rather why he should not go thither. St. Cyril,(1) and also St. John Chrysostom distinguish different parts of Galilee; and say that when Jesus went into Galilee, the meaning is, that he would not at that time go to Nazareth, where he was bred, nor to Capharnaum, where he had lived for a time, but went to Cana, and those other parts of Galilee; and that the word for only gives the reason of this, that he would not go to Nazareth or Capharnaum, because no prophet is honoured in his own country. And for the same reason he again said to the ruler: (ver. 48) Unless you see sign and wonders you believe not: whereas the Samaritans, from whom he was now coming readily believed without such miracles. (Witham)

 

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What is the significance of the transfiguration?

Elijah and Moses appeared to confirm that Jesus was the fulfillment of the Law and the Prophets. That a new covenant was at hand.

 

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Thank you for your explanations.