2And after six days Jesus taketh with him Peter, and James, and John, and leadeth them up into an high mountain apart by themselves: and he was transfigured before them.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And it came to pass about an eight days after these sayings, he took Peter and John and James, and went up into a mountain to pray. …
And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart, …
Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off.
And he suffered no man to follow him, save Peter, and James, and John the brother of James.
And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy;
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-13)Here is, I. A prediction of Christ’s kingdom now near approaching, Mark 9:1. That which is foretold, is, 1. That the kingdom of God would come , and would come so as to be seen : the kingdom of the Messiah shall be set up in the world by the utter destruction of the Jewish polity, which stood in the way of it; this was the restoring of the kingdom of God among men, which had been in a manner lost…
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