Mark 9:2-3

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 9:2

‘And after six days Jesus takes with him Peter, and James and John, and brings them apart into a high mountain by themselves.’ ‘After six days.’ Matthew follows Mark in this, and Luke has ‘about eight days after’ (his source probably included the day when Jesus spoke Mark 9:1 and the day of the Transfiguration itself, not just the six days in between). Thus all connect the Transfiguration with the previous verse (Mark 9:1 and parallels) by a time note. Such a time reference is rare in the... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Mark 9:2-3

‘And he was transfigured before them, and his clothes became glistering, extremely white, in such a way that no launderer on earth can whiten them.’ A remarkable transformation of Jesus is described in terms which show that it was really indescribable. It was a vision of the glory of heaven and of absolute purity. They ‘beheld His glory’ (John 1:14) and were ‘eyewitnesses of His majesty’ (2 Peter 1:16). We are probably intended to see in this a preview of ‘the glory of His Father’ which would... 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

C.I. Scofield

Scofield's Reference Notes - Mark 9:2

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Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Mark 9:1-50

Chapter 9And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That there be some of them that stand here, which shall not taste of death, till they have seen the kingdom of God come with power ( Mark 9:1 ).Now what did He mean by that? Because those disciples have all died, and we have not yet seen the kingdom of God come with power. Was Jesus mistaken? Well, first of all, no. Jesus was not mistaken. If my interpretation of a scripture would make it appear that Jesus was mistaken, then my... read more

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