6And when the disciples heard it, they fell on their face, and were sore afraid.
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And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.
And it was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city: and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my face.
Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and, behold, the glory of the LORD stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river of Chebar: and I fell on my face.
And I fell unto the ground, and heard a voice saying unto me, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
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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