Mark 9:8. And suddenly, etc. Mark omits some details here. The withdrawal itself was not necessarily sudden, but their perception of it was.

Save Jesus only. His authority suffices; His love redeems; His glory is the great end.

With themselves. Peculiar to Mark; it hints at the self-consciousness of an eye-witness, and suggests that our Lord was near them as they looked. Matthew tells that they looked up after He touched them.

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