Emphasis Preaching Journal

Thomas Nast, a New York cartoonist during the second half of the nineteenth century, took on powerful Tammany Hall machine leader "Boss" Tweed, a notoriously corrupt politician. Tweed told his cronies, "We gotta stop them darned* pictures. I don't care so much what the papers write about me -- my constituents can't read. But they understand the pictures." (*Tweed's expletive was stronger.)

The three disciples who were present at the Transfiguration heard some words, but it was the picture the event emblazoned in their minds that shaped them powerfully.