At mid-day; this appeared at noon-day, that it might not be suspected to be a dream or fancy.
Above the brightness of the sun; our Saviour’s face in the transfiguration did shine as the sun, Mat_27:2, and he was yet on earth in his mortal body; how much more resplendent must it have been now, when he appeared from heaven with his glorious body! And if the righteous shall shine as the sun, Dan_12:3Mat_13:43; how much more does their Prince and Saviour! See concerning this history, Act_9:3, &c., and Act_22:6, &c.