Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers began debating with him. Some said, “What is this babbler trying to say?” Others said, “He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign gods,” because he was preaching Jesus and the resurrection.
His disciples didn’t understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him, and that they had done these things to him.
As they were coming down from the mountain, he commanded them that they should tell no one what they had seen, until after the Son of Humanity had risen from the dead.