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Matthew 17:1
And after six days, Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John, his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart,
And after six days, Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John, his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart,
CHAPTER XVII. _The transfiguration of Christ_, 1-8. _Christ's discourse with his disciples on the subject_, 9-13. _He heals a lunatic_, 14-18. _His discourse with his disciples on this subject als...
Matthew 17:1. See also Mark 9:2; Luke 9:28. AND AFTER SIX DAYS - That is, six days from the conversation recorded in the last chapter. Luk
5. THE COMING GLORY; the Helpless Disciples and the Power of the King. The Tribute Money. CHAPTER 17 1. The Transfiguration. (Matthew 17:1 .) 2. The Helpless Disciples and the Power of the King. (M...
THE TRANSFIGURATION, AND THE COMING OF ELIJAH (Mark 9:2 *, Luke 9:28). The narrative agrees closely with Mk., the chief difference being the appropriate addition of Matthew 17:7. The fear of the disci...
THE MOUNT OF TRANSFIGURATION (Matthew 17:1-8)...
Six days after, Jesus took Peter, and James, and John his brother, and brought them by themselves to a high mountain, and his appearance was changed in their presence. His face shone like the sun, and...
AFTER SIX DAYS. The Transfiguration (see App-149) is date in all three Gospels (Mark 9:2.Luke 9:28; Luke 9:28). It was thus connected with the first mention of His sufferings and death ...
Matthew 17:1-13. The Transfiguration Mark 9:2-13; Luke 9:28-36 1. _after six days_ Within a week of Peter's confession. St Luke has "about an eight days after," according to the common Jewish reckoni...
THE TRANSFIGURATION Mark 9:2-13; Luke 9:28-36....
ΜΕΘʼ ἩΜΈΡΑΣ ἝΞ. Within a week of Peter’s confession. St Luke has ‘about an eight days after,’ according to the common Jewish reckoning, by which each part of a day is counted as a day. The note of tim...
Ver l. And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart, 2. And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and...
_JESUS IN HIS GLORY, TRANSFIGURED MATTHEW 17:1-13:_ It was probably on Mount Hermon that the transfiguration took place. Jesus had gone up on this mountain to pray. Luke describes it this way, "Now it...
ΜΕΘ' = ΜΕΤΆ (G3326) с _асс._ после, ΕΞ (G1803) шесть. Означает: "на шестой день" (McNeile), или: "на седьмой день". Foster R. McCurley, Jr., "4And after Six Days' (Mark 9:2): A Semitic Literary Devic...
AND AFTER SIX DAYS— That is, about six days if we reckon exclusively, and about eight days if we reckon inclusively, after our Lord had accepted the title of Messiah. See Luke 9:28 who has it, _about...
Section 42 TRANSFIGURED ON HIGH MOUNTAIN JESUS SHOWS HIS GLORY TO PETER, JAMES AND JOHN (Parallels: Mark 9:2-13; Luke 9:28-36) TEXT: 17:1-13 1 And after six days Jesus taketh with him Peter, and Jam...
And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart, For the exposition, see the notes at Luke 9:28. The time of this section is su...
28 See 2Pe_1:16-18. 28 This prediction was fulfilled about a week later when He took His most intimate disciples with Him and they saw His power and presence and were spectators of His magnificence (2...
AFTER SIX DAYS] Lk 'after about eight days,' either an independent calculation or another way of reckoning. AN HIGH MOUNTAIN] not Mt. Tabor, the top of which was occupied by a fortress, but more proba...
THE TRANSFIGURATION 1-8. The Transfiguration (Mark 9:2; Luke 9:28). St. Leo rightly apprehended the historical situation when he said that in the Transfiguration the principal object aimed at was tha...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 17 JESUS CHANGED HIS APPEARANCE 17:1-13 V1 Six days later Jesus took Peter, James and John (who was James’s brother) with him. He le...
XVII. (1) AFTER SIX DAYS. — St. Luke’s “about eight days” (Luke 9:28) may be noted as an example of the mode of reckoning which spoke of the interval between our Lord’s death and resurrection, about...
Chapter 13 The New Departure (Founding of the Church.) - Matthew 16:13; Matthew 17:1 THIS conversation at Caesarea Philippi is universally regarded as marking a new era in the life of Christ. His rej...
_The Transfiguration_ (Mark 9:2-13; Luke 9:28-36)....
μεθʼ ἡμέρας ἒξ. This precise note of time looks like exact recollection of a strictly historical incident. Yet Holtzmann (H. C.) finds even in this a mythical element, based on Exodus 24:16 : the six...
JESUS SHOWS DIVINE GLORY Matthew 17:1-8 _Moses'_ face shone after having absorbed the divine glory, as some diamonds burn with sunlight after being carried into a dark room. _Stephen's face_ shone be...
"After six days." Days of silence. No record have we of what transpired in those days. The strange declarations of the Cross had crushed the hearts of these men. Now to three of their number, as speci...
And (1) (a) after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart, (1) Christ in his present company is humble in the gospel, but all the wh...
And after six days. St. Matthew reckons neither the day of the promise, nor the day of the transfiguration; St. Luke, including both, calls the interval about eight days, Greek: osei emerai okto. (St....
CHAPTER 37 TRANSFIGURATION Matthew 17:1-13; Mark 9:2-13; Luke 9:28-36. Mark: “And after six days, Jesus takes Peter, James, and John, and carries them up into an exceedingly high mountain, privately,...
"And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart, (2) And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his...
CONTENTS We have here an account of Christ's Transfiguration. A Lunatic is healed by Jesus. The Lord again foretells, his approaching death. The Tribute Money....
Chapter 8, which opens the portion that comes before us tonight, is a striking illustration as well as proof of the method which God has been pleased to employ in giving us the apostle Matthew's accou...
_THE MOUNT OF TRANSFIGURATION_ ‘And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart, and was transfigures before them.’ Matthew 17:1...
Matthew 17:1._And after six days. _We must first inquire for what purpose Christ clothed himself with heavenly glory for a short time, and why he did not admit more than three of his disciples to be s...
Jesus leads them up into a high mountain, and there is transfigured before them: "His face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light." Moses and Elias appeared also, talking with Hi...
Ver. 1 AND AFTER SIX DAYS,.... That is, so long after Christ's conversation with his disciples at Caesarea Philippi, Peter's confession of him, and the reproof he gave him, upon his intimating that he...
And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart, Ver. 1. _And after six days_] Luke saith Luk 9:28 about eight days after. It come...
_After six days_ Reckoning exclusively from that in which the discourse recorded in the preceding chapter was delivered, to that on which the transfiguration took place, or, including those two days,...
Only six days intervened before the three disciples witnessed the transfiguration of the Lord Jesus. Luke says, "about eight days after these things," for no doubt he counts the day the Lord spoke, an...
1-13 Now the disciples beheld somewhat of Christ's glory, as of the only begotten of the Father. It was intended to support their faith, when they would have to witness his crucifixion; and would giv...
MATTHEW CHAPTER 18 MATTHEW 17:1 The transfiguration of Christ. MATTHEW 17:10 He instructs his disciples concerning the coming of Elias, MATTHEW 17:14 healeth the lunatic,...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book II were called wise by the Lord; and, in like manner, five were styled foolish. Again, five men are said to have been with the Lord when He obtained testimony[189] Ter...
Matthew 17:1 Now G2532 after G3326 six G1803 days G2250 Jesus G2424 took G3880 (G5719) Peter G4074...
‘And after six days Jesus takes with Him Peter, and James, and John his brother, and brings them up into a high mountain apart.' ‘After six days.' Here we must ask the question, six days from when? Th...
Matthew 17:1. AFTER SIX DAYS, Luke: ‘about an eight days,' _i.e.,_ ‘about a week.' PETER AND JAMES AND JOHN HIS BROTHER. His companions in Gethsemane (chap. Matthew 26:35; Mark 14:37), Peter the lead...
After our Lord's prediction of His sufferings and hint of His glory (chap. Matthew 16:21-28), three chosen disciples receive a supernatural testimony and pledge of that glory. But the primary purpose...
AFTER SIX DAYS (μεθ' ημερας εξ). This could be on the sixth day, but as Luke (Luke 9:28) puts it "about eight days" one naturally thinks of a week as the probable time, though it is not important.T...
JAMES (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 4:21). _...
Matthew 17:1 I. Not for the Apostles' sake only was the glory of the Lord thus revealed. In them the whole Church since saw it, and to us, as to them, it is given as a support of faith, a kindling of...
Matthew 17:1. _And after six days_ Luke says, «about an eight days after these sayings;» but I suppose he counted the day before and the day after. «After six days,» and the first day was, probably,...
Matthew 17:1. _And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart, and was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun...
CONTENTS: The transfiguration of Jesus Christ. The powerless disciples, unable to heal a lunatic, and the mighty Christ. Resurrection again foretold. Miracle of the tribute money. CHARACTERS: God, Je...
Matthew 17:2. _He was transfigured before them._ Μεταμορφωθη, was transformed before them. Matthew, Mark, and Luke record this vision; and name the three selected witnesses. Peter had just confessed t...
SIX DAYS LATER. Luke says about a week. JESUS TOOK WITH HIM. Peter, James, and John were the three chosen to be the closest associates of Jesus. UP A HIGH MOUNTAIN. Not Mount Tabor, since there was a...
_And was transfigured before them._ THE MOUNT OF VISION I. Take what is taught in the passage as to Christ’s humanity and its aspects. Among all the aspects in which the Saviour is presented to us,...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 17:1 AFTER SIX DAYS probably indicates that they are still in Caesarea Philippi. PETER AND JAMES, AND JOHN. The inner circle of disciples. HIGH MOUNTAIN. Church trad
JESUS IS TRANSFIGURED ON THE MOUNTAIN MATTHEW 17:1-13; MARK 9:2-13; LUKE 9:28-36; MATTHEW 17:1 And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, Jame
CHAPTER 17 _And after six days_, &c. There seems to be here a discrepancy with Luke 9:28, who says, _it came to pass about an eight days after these things._ S. Jerome answers, "The solution is simple...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 17:1. AFTER SIX DAYS.—Within a week of Peter’s confession. St. Luke has “about an eight days after,” according to the common Jewish reckoning, by which each part of a day is c...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 17:1 _The Transfiguration of Jesus_._ _(Mark 9:2; Luke 9:28.) This mysterious event was intended primarily to confirm the faith of the three apostles who were to h
Let's turn now in our Bibles to Matthew chapter seventeen. The seventeenth chapter of Matthew actually begins with the twenty-eighth verse of the sixteenth chapter. It's unfortunate that the men who d...
2 Corinthians 13:1; 2 Peter 1:18; Luke 8:51; Luke 9:28; Mark 5:37;...
Taketh [π α ρ α λ α μ β α ν ε ι]. Rev. gives the force of the preposition para, taketh with him. Apart [κ α τ ι δ ι α ν]. Not said of the mountain, as isolated, but of the disciples; so that they mig...
A high mountain — Probably Mount Tabor. Mark 9:2; Luke 9:28....
The former part of this chapter gives us an account of our Saviour's glorious transfiguration, he laid as it were the garments of frail humanity and mortality aside for. little time, and assuming to h...