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The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 9:29

And as he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was altered, etc. The marvellous change evidently passed over Jesus while he was in prayer, probably because of his intense prayer. Real, close communion with God ever imparts to the countenance of the one who has thus entered into communion with the High and Holy One, a new and strange beauty. Very many have noticed at times this peculiar and lovely change pass over the faces of God's true saints as they prayed—faces perhaps old and... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Luke 9:28-36

See an account of the transfiguration in Matthew 17:1-13, and Mark 9:2-13.Luke 9:29The fashion - The “appearance.”Glistering - Shining like lightning - of a bright, dazzling whiteness. As Mark says, “more white than any fuller could make it.”Luke 9:31In glory - Of a glorious appearance. Of an appearance like that which the saints have in heaven.His decease - literally, his “exit” or “departure.” The word translated here “decease” - that is, exit, or “going out” - is elsewhere used to denote... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Luke 9:28-36

Luke 9:28-36. It came to pass about eight days after Including the day on which the discourse, recorded in the preceding chapter, was delivered, and that on which the fact, here mentioned, took place: otherwise, exclusively of these two days, it was six days after, as Matthew has it. See the following account of our Lord’s transfiguration, explained at large in the notes on Matthew 17:1-8, with some additional observations on Mark 9:2-10. Moses and Elias, who appeared in glory Like... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Luke 9:28-36

75. The transfiguration (Matthew 17:1-13; Mark 9:2-13; Luke 9:28-36)Jesus’ transfiguration took place on a high mountain, possibly Mount Hermon, which was not far from Caesarea Philippi. The event was a revelation of Christ’s glory and was witnessed by only three chosen apostles. In coming into the world as a human being, Jesus had laid his divine glory aside, but now it reappeared briefly through a human body. It gave an indication of the glory he would receive after he had finished the work... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Luke 9:28

about an eight days. This is inclusive reckoning (including parts of two other days), and is exactly the same as the exclusive six days of Matthew 17:1 and Mark 9:2 . after. Greek. meta. App-104 . a = the (well known). to pray. App-134 . This is the fifth of seven such occasions. Peculiar to Luke, here. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Luke 9:29

And = And it came to pass. as He prayed = in(Greek. en App-104 .) His praying. fashion = appearance. countenance = face. was altered = [became] different. Greek. heteros. App-124 . glistering = effulgent, or lightening forth (as though from internal light). The Eng. "glister" is from the Anglo-Saxon glisian = to shine, or glitter. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Luke 9:28

And it came to pass about eight days after these things, that he took with him Peter and John and James, and went up into the mountain to pray.THE TRANSFIGURATIONThe transfiguration is viewed by some scholars as the fulfillment of Jesus' prophecy in the preceding verse; but if that was what Jesus meant, he would have said, "NONE of you shall taste death, etc." As Bickersteth observed, "The solemnity of those words (Luke 9:27) forbids us to limit them to an event that would occur within eight... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Luke 9:29

And as he was praying, the fashion of his countenance was altered, and his raiment became white and dazzling.This was an objective occurrence, not a mere vision, or impression of some kind on the minds of the apostles who saw it. Long, long afterward, John would write, "And we beheld his glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth" (John 1:14).And as he was praying ... Jesus here faced a great crisis in his life, issuing in his deliberate choice of the way of... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Luke 9:28

Luke 9:28. About an eight days— What St. Luke calls eight days, is by St. Matthew and St. Mark termed six days. The like differences are to be met with in prophane historians. For instance, Suetonius Galba, Ch. 17 tells us, that Piso, before he was murdered, had lived six days in the character of Caesar; and Piso himself, in his speech to the soldiers, mentions the same space of time: "It is now the sixth day since I was adopted Caesar." Tacit. Hist. lib. 1: cap. 29. Nevertheless the same... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Luke 9:29

Luke 9:29. The fashion of his countenance was altered,— The appearance, &c. was changed. See on Matthew 17:2. This was so striking a circumstance, that Eunapius relates a story of Jamblichus, which seems evidently to be borrowed from this; (Vit. Jamb. p. 22.) as many things which Philostratus tells us of Apollonius Tyanaeus seem also to be borrowed from other circumstances recorded of Christ by the evangelists. The words λευκος εξαστραπτων, which we render white and glistering, may be... read more

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