‘And it came about, on the next day, when they were come down from the mountain, a great crowd met him.'
The connection with the Transfiguration is clearly made. As Jesus descends from the mountain with His three companions He is met by ‘a great crowd'. A contrast and comparison is probably intended to be drawn between the size of the ‘great crowd', seen as representing humanity, and the greatness of the majesty of God in Luke 9:43 a. On the Mount the difference between the majestic Jesus and the sleepy Apostles had been accentuated. Here the difference between the great crowd and the majesty of God is being accentuated.