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G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Mark 9:1-50

Here we see four men who have passed without death into the atmosphere and society of the heavens. One only of the four is there by His own right. Pure and spotless humanity stands in the glory of the unsullied light, and holds familiar converse with the spirits of just men. We pass from the mountain to the valley. There we see Jesus, the baffled disciples, the father, the departing demon tearing his victim. The majesty and power of the Lord are manifested. Again He led these men through... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Mark 9:5

AN IMPETUOUS ANSWER‘And Peter answered and said to Jesus, Master, it is good for us to be here.’ Mark 9:5 Certainly, as far as we can judge, this is an instance in which silence would have been much better than words. It was childish to speak. For what he said was both ill-timed and ill-advised. There are many occasions in which silence is the truest wisdom and the best eloquence. This, for instance, was a case in point—‘for he wist not what to say; for they were sore afraid’; and when you... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Mark 9:1-10

Jesus is Transfigured Before Peter, James and John and Reveals His Glory (9:1-8). Having revealed to His disciples His coming glory, based on His coming suffering, Jesus will now completely open half-opened blind eyes so that they may see fully. It is one thing to be told of the glory that is coming, it is another to see it with one’s own eyes. In a sense what happens now is a preview of Jesus’ second coming. There also seems little doubt that Jesus intended the scene now described to be... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Mark 9:1-32

SECTION 3. Jesus’ Ministry Throughout Galilee and In The Surrounding Regions (4:35-9:32). After the initial opening up of the story of Jesus with its continual emphasis on His unique authority, Who He was and what He had come to do (Mark 4:1-3), and the series of parables which have indicated how the Kingly Rule of God was to expand (Mark 4:1-34), Mark now indicates how this expansion continued to occur through the ministry of Jesus in Galilee and the surrounding regions. At the same time he... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Mark 9:1-33

The Eyes of The Disciples Are Opened (8:22-9:33a). Following on Jesus’ concern at the lack of understanding of the disciples we now learn how their eyes are gradually opened to see at least something of the truth. The subsection commences with the healing of a blind man in two stages, a picture of what is happening to the disciples, and moves on to the disciples’ recognition that Jesus is the Messiah. The consequence of this is that Jesus then begins to emphasise that His way is to be a way of... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Mark 9:4

‘And there appeared to them Elijah with Moses, and they were talking with Jesus.’ The disciples may have remembered how Elijah and Moses had both previously gone up into a mountain to talk with God at special times when they were in God’s service on earth. Now it was Jesus Who had gone up into the mountain and here were Elijah and Moses also come to the mountain to speak with Him. Those who represented the Prophets and the Law, the sources of the word of God of the Old Testament, were... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Mark 9:5-6

‘And Peter answers and says to Jesus, “Rabbi, it is good for us to be here (or ‘it is good that we are here’). And let us make three booths, one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah.” For he did not know what to answer for they were filled with a dread sense of awe (were dreadfully afraid).’ If anything confirms the genuineness of the account it is this. As always Peter could not keep quiet. James and John could watch in silent awe, but not Peter. And when he did speak it was with the vain... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Mark 9:2-13

Mark 9:2-1 Chronicles : . The Transfiguration and the Coming of Elijah.— After an interval, defined with curious exactness as six days, which may reflect the influence of Exodus 24:16, the three most intimate disciples of Jesus receive a Divine endorsement of His Messianic claim in a vision on a mountain-top (probably a slope of Hermon, not Tabor, see pp. 29, 32). Jesus was transfigured before them. Mk. dwells on the changed appearance of His clothes, which is described in a vigorous phrase.... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Mark 9:2-10

Both Matthew and Luke, as well as Mark, bear record to the truth of this history: See Poole on "Matthew 17:1", and following verses to Matthew 17:9. Our Saviour was pleased thus to fortify these three of his disciples against his passion, which they were soon to see; and also to confirm their faith as to his Divine nature. Why Moses and Elias, rather than any others, appeared, is but a curious question, of no great use to us if resolved, and not possible to be resolved. These three disciples,... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Mark 9:2-13

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTESMark 9:2. Transfigured.—A strong word, implying that the change was not due to any external influence, but proceeded from Christ’s own inner being. “While the form of our Lord remained the same, the fashion of that form underwent a change. His whole sacred Person seemed to be living with light—light flashing outward from within, and rendering luminous and bright in unspeakable glory His face and form and dress.”Mark 9:3. Omit as snow. The Evangelists seem to vie... read more

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