save Peter, and James, and John This is the first time we hear of an election within the election. "That which He was about to do was so great and holy that those three only, the flower and crown of the Apostolic band, were its fitting witnesses." The other occasions when we read of such an election were equally solemn and significant, (1) the Transfiguration (Matthew 17:2); and (2) the Agony in the Garden of Gethsemane (Matthew 26:37).

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