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In this article, I consider the surprising and striking ways in which the final words of the Lucan transfiguration account, "This is my Son, my Chosen One; listen to him" (Luke 9:35), have been read along the same lines as the interpretation of the famous, second-century, anti-Jewish "arch-heretic" Marcion. Drawing on Tertullian's well-known work against Marcion, I discuss key aspects of this "heretic's" interpretation, along with the manner in which Tertullian, among others, actually reads a significant element in the verse cum Marcione rather than adversus Marcionem. I contend that following Marcion at this point does not do justice to the presentation of the Lucan Jesus in its Second Temple context, nor to the Gospel according to Luke itself. I conclude that, when reading the conclusion of the Lucan transfiguration account, one should read adversus Marcionem and leave this "Marcionite" reading behind.
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