Pointing to it and its significance, he wrote No, it was not by following artfully contrived false stories that we acquainted you with the power and presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, but it was by having become eyewitnesses of his magnificence
जवळजवळ ३२ वर्षे उलटल्यानंतर पेत्राने या दृष्टान्ताचा उल्लेख केला, त्यावेळी त्याच्या मनात तो अगदी कालच घडल्याप्रमाणे स्पष्ट होता.