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After six days. The Transfiguration (see App-149) is date in all three Gospels (Mar_9:2. Luk_9:28). It was thus connected with the first mention of His sufferings and death (Mat_16:21; Mat_17:9, Mat_17:12), and would counteract any doubts that the disclosure might give rise to. By it the glory is connected with the sufferings, as it always is (Compare Mat_16:21 with Mat_17:27 and Luk_24:26, and see App-71. 1Pe_1:11; 1Pe_4:13; 1Pe_5:1); and it gives a glimpse of His coming (2Pe_1:16-18).
after. Greek. meta. App-104.
Jesus. App-98.
taketh = taketh [Him aside].
Peter, &c. These three were with Him at the raising of Jairus's daughter (Mar_6:37), and in Gethsemane (Mat_26:37).
James = and James.
an high mountain. Not the traditional "Tabor", for it was then inhabited, with a fortress on the top, according to Josephus. More probably Hermon.