Matthew Poole Commentary - Luke 9:18 - 9:18

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Matthew Poole Commentary - Luke 9:18 - 9:18


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Ver. 18-22. Matthew and Mark tell us this discourse passed at Caesarea Philippi (or at least one of the same import). Matthew also gives us an account of it with more circumstances. See Poole on "Mat_16:13", and following verses to Mat_16:23.



As he was alone praying; that is, free from the multitude, for the next words tell us, the



disciples were with him. {Luk_9:22} is not to be found in the other evangelists; and if Luke hath reported these words in the right order of time, they afford us a probable reason of what is said Luk_9:21, why Christ would not yet be published as the Christ, or the Son of God. Because he was to suffer, and it might much have shaken people’s faith, as to that point, if they had seen the person whom they believed such suffering, and to be so despitefully used as he was; he therefore desired to be concealed as to that, until he should be declared the Son of God with power, by his resurrection from the dead.