Verse Lens · Context pointer
2 Peter 1:18 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 18. 18And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.
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Role in This Section
This verse completes the eyewitness claim by locating the heard heavenly voice with Jesus on the holy mountain.
Read It With
- 2 Peter 1:16–21
Read 2 Peter 1:18 with 1:16–21. This verse completes the eyewitness claim by locating the heard heavenly voice with Jesus on the holy mountain. The complete unit establishes this movement: The proclaimed power and coming of Jesus are grounded in claimed eyewitness experience of his majesty and in the prophetic word, which demands attention because prophecy did not originate in autonomous human will.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read 2 Peter 1:16–21 — Majesty Witness and Prophetic Word Ground the ComingSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing Scripture wording, paragraph markers, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage.
Exact location: 2 Peter 1:16–21, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗Greek textual evidence
The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition
Michael W. Holmes, editor; Society of Biblical Literature and Logos
Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, 2010
Supports: Greek wording, clause relationships, repeated terms, and the base text used for original-language discussion.
Exact location: SBLGNT official text file 2Pet.txt, 1:16–21
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