1And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart,
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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 he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy.
And he suffered no man to follow him, save Peter, and James, and John the brother of James.
And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.
This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-13)We have here thee story o Christ’s transfiguration; he ha said that the Son of man should shortly come in his kingdom , with which promise all the three evangelists industriously connect this story; as if Christ’s transfiguration were intended for a specimen and an earnest of the kingdom of Christ, and of that light and love of his, which therein appears to his select and sanctified ones. Peter sp…
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