Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Matthew 17:2
And was (b) transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.
(b) Changed into another colour.
And was (b) transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.
(b) Changed into another colour.
MATTHEW 17:2 to. fw/j {A} Instead of to. fw/j, which is strongly supported by witnesses representing all types of text, several Western witnesses, recollecting what is said in Matthew 28:3, make...
Verse Matthew 17:2. _WAS TRANSFIGURED_] That fulness of the Godhead, which dwelt bodily in Christ, now shone forth through the human nature, and manifested to his disciples not only that _Divinity_ w...
AND WAS TRANSFIGURED BEFORE THEM - The word “transfigure” means to change the appearance or form. It does not denote the change of the substance of a thing, but simply of its appearance. It puts on a...
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...
TRANSFIGURED. Greek. _metamorphoomai =_ to change the form. Occurs only here, Mark 9:2, and in Rom 12:2, 2 Corinthians 3:18. Marking the change TO. new condition, while _metaschematizo =_ change FROM....
_was transfigured before them_ St Luke mentions that this was "as He prayed." The glorified change may be illustrated by Mark 16:12, "He appeared in _another form_unto two of them." The word implies m...
THE TRANSFIGURATION Mark 9:2-13; Luke 9:28-36....
ΜΕΤΕΜΟΡΦΏΘΗ. ‘Was transformed.’ Here was a change (μετά) of μορφή, ‘the abiding form,’ ‘the manner of existence.’ μεταμορφοῦσθαι ‘involves an inwardness of change, a change not external, not of accide...
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...
ΜΕΤΕΜΟΡΦΏΘΗ _aor. ind. pass. от_ ΜΕΤΑΜΟΡΦΌΩ (G3339) преображать, изменять внешне (видимая глазу трансформация). Иисус принял облик Своей небесной славы (BBKA; DJG, 834-41). ΈΜΠΡΟΣΘΕΝ (G1714) с _gen._...
AND WAS TRANSFIGURED BEFORE THEM— The word μεταμορφωθη implies either that there was a transfiguration made on the substance of his body, according to the import of the word in the best classic writer...
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...
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...
AND WAS TRANSFIGURED BEFORE THEM. — Elsewhere in the New Testament (with the exception of the parallel, Mark 9:2) the word is used only in its spiritual sense, and is there rendered “transformed.” St....
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...
μετεμορφώθη, _transfiguratus est_, Vulgate; became altered in appearance. Such transformation in exalted states of mind is predicated of others, _e.g._, of Iamblichus (Eunapius in I. Vitâ. 22, cited b...
_The Transfiguration_ (Mark 9:2-13; Luke 9:28-36)....
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...
Transfigured. Let no one think that he changed his natural form, laying aside his corporeal, and assuming a spiritual form; but when the evangelist says his countenance shone like the sun, and describ...
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...
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...
2._And was transfigured before them. _Luke says that this happened _while he was praying; _and from the circumstances of time and place, we may infer that he had prayed for what he now obtained, that...
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...
AND WAS TRANSFIGURED BEFORE THEM,.... Peter, James, and John, before whom he was metamorphosed, or changed into another form; for not the substance of his body was changed, nor even the shape of it al...
And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light. Ver. 2. _And was transfigured before them_] This was while he was praying, as St Luke note...
Mat. 17:2. "And was transfigured before them: and His face did shine as the sun, and His raiment was white as the light." This denoted who He was - _viz._, He that was spoken of in Daniel 7:9, and Psa...
_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,...
TRANSFIGURED; changed in his appearance. HIS RAIMENT WAS WHITE AS LIGHT; resplendent as lightning. The three apostles were here favored with a glimpse of the future glory of the Saviour and his true f...
THE TRANSFIGURATION OF CHRIST....
AND WAS TRANSFIGURED BEFORE THEM; AND HIS FACE DID SHINE AS THE SUN, AND HIS RAIMENT WAS WHITE AS THE LIGHT. Memorable, important days were those which Matthew fixes so carefully in the order of event...
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...
Ver. 1,2. Both Mark and Luke have recorded this history. Mark saith, MARK 9:3, _his raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow; so as no fuller on earth can white them._ Luke saith, LUKE 9:28,29;...
Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh The Lord, again, in the retirement of the mount, had changed His raiment for a robe of light; but He still retained features which Peter could recognise.[4...
Matthew 17:2 and G2532 transfigured G3339 (G5681) before G1715 them G846 G2532 His G846 face G4383 shone...
‘And He was transfigured before them, and his face shone as the sun, and his garments became white as the light.' And there in that high mountain the disciples saw an amazing transformation take place...
Matthew 17:2. AND HE WAS TRANSFIGURED BEFORE THEM, as witnesses. Peter afterwards mentions it (1 Peter 1:16-18) and John alludes to it (John 1:14). The change in His appearance took place while He was...
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...
HE WAS TRANSFIGURED BEFORE THEM (μετεμορφωθη εμπροσθεν αυτων). The word is the same as the metamorphoses (cf. Ovid) of pagan mythology. Luke does not use it. The idea is change (μετα-) of form (μορφ...
WAS TRANSFIGURED The transfiguration scene contains, in miniature, all the elements of the future kingdom in manifestation: (1) the Lord, not in humiliation, but in glory. (Matthew 17:2). (2) Moses...
Matthew 17:2 The portion of St. Matthew's Gospel from which the text is taken may be called the Section of the Transfiguration. In it the Church is led by her Lord to a creed, to a worship, and to a...
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...
AS THEY LOOKED ON, A CHANGE CAME OVER HIM. This was to show his Divine Glory to these three [and to the others and to us as well] before he went to the Cross. HIS FACE BECAME AS BRIGHT AS THE SUN. Sym...
_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 17:2 WAS TRANSFIGURED. Jesus’ physical transformation was a reminder of the glory he had before he became man (John 1:14;...
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...
Acts 26:13; Exodus 34:29; John 1:14; John 17:24; Luke 9:29;...
He was transfigured [μ ε τ ε μ ο ρ φ ω θ η], meta, denoting change or transfer, and morfh, form. This latter word denotes the form regarded as the distinctive nature and character of the object, and i...
And was transfigured — Or transformed. The indwelling Deity darted out its rays through the veil of the flesh; and that with such transcendent splendour, that he no longer bore the form of a servant....