Ver. 1,2. Both Mark and Luke have recorded this history. Mark saith, Mark 9:3, his raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow; so as no fuller on earth can white them. Luke saith, Luke 9:28,29; And it came to pass about an eight days after these sayings, he took Peter, and John, and James, and went up into a mountain to pray. And as he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was altered, and his raiment was white and glistering. All three agree the place, upon a mountain. Matthew saith it was six, Luke saith eight days after the preceding discourses. Luke mentions our Lord's praying, which neither of the others mentions, and saith his transfiguration began while that he was praying. They all agree the company that was with our Saviour, Peter, James, and John; which were the three our Saviour took with him when he went to pray before his passion, Matthew 26:37. Peter was to be a great instrument in carrying on the works of the gospel. James was he whom Herod killed, Acts 12:2. John was he who outlived all the apostles. He intended to have these three witnesses of his agony, Matthew 26:37; he prepareth them for that, and for the future testimony they were to give him, by making them eye witnesses of this his glorious transfiguration. This, as to his person, lay in the change of his countenance, looking gloriously as the sun, and his raiment looking extraordinarily white.
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Matthew 17:2
2 And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.