Matthew Poole Commentary - Mark 9:2 - 9:2

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Matthew Poole Commentary - Mark 9:2 - 9:2


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Ver. 2-10. Both Matthew and Luke, as well as Mark, bear record to the truth of this history:



See Poole on "Mat_17:1", and following verses to Mat_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, by this apparition, saw our Saviour owned by Moses, who gave the law, and by Elias, both of them in great repute with the Jews. The three disciples could know neither of them (dead many hundreds of years before they were in being) but by revelation: probably Christ told them who they were. What their discourse with Christ was in the general Matthew telleth us. There is no considerable thing in this evangelist’s relation which we did not meet with in Matthew, which may supersede any further labour about it here.