_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, _about eight days after_, as Luke has it: _Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother_ The thre... [ Continue Reading ]
_And behold_ To heighten the grandeur and solemnity of the scene; _there appeared unto them_ That is, unto the disciples as well as Jesus; _Moses and Elias_ Luke says, _two men, which were Moses and Elias_, and Mark, _Elias with Moses._ Moses, the great lawgiver of the Jews, and Elijah, who had been... [ Continue Reading ]
_While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them_ Such, probably, as took possession first of the tabernacle, and afterward of Solomon's temple, when those holy places were consecrated. See Exodus 40:34; 1 Kings 8:10; where we are told that _the cloud filled the house of the Lord_, so _... [ Continue Reading ]
_Jesus charged them Tell the vision to no man_ Not to the rest of the disciples, lest they should be grieved and discouraged because they were not admitted to the sight; nor to any other persons, lest it should enrage some the more, and his approaching sufferings should make others disbelieve it. “H... [ Continue Reading ]
_His disciples asked_, &c. Being much surprised at the sudden departure of Elias, and at their Master's ordering them to keep his having appeared a secret, they had no sooner finished their dispute about what the _rising from the dead should mean_, than, addressing themselves to Jesus, they said, _W... [ Continue Reading ]
_And when they were come to the multitude_ Namely, the day following, Luke 9:37, _there came a certain man, kneeling down to him_ In great humility before Jesus, and with deep reverence for him, and _saying, Lord, have mercy on my son_ Compassionate his miserable condition, _for he is lunatic and so... [ Continue Reading ]
_Then came the disciples to Jesus_ Namely, the nine disciples, who had been left with the multitude, when Jesus and the three others went up to the mount. They were silent before the multitude, ashamed, it seems, that they could not cast out this evil spirit, and, perhaps, vexed lest through some fa... [ Continue Reading ]
_This kind_ Of devils, _goeth not out but by prayer and fasting_ Joined with an eminent degree of the faith he had been describing. He intended by this to excite them to intercede with God for his more abundant co-operation; and by such extraordinary devotions to endeavour to prepare their souls for... [ Continue Reading ]
_When they were come to Capernaum_ Where our Lord now dwelt. Hence the collectors of the sacred tribute did not ask him for it till he came to this the ordinary place of his residence. _They that received the tribute-money came to Peter_ Whose house was in Capernaum, and probably in his house Jesus... [ Continue Reading ]