About an eight days— What St. Luke calls eight days, is by St. Matthew and St. Mark termed six days. The like differences are to be met with in prophane historians. For instance, Suetonius Galba, Ch. 17 tells us, that Piso, before he was murdered, had lived six days in the character of Caesar; and Piso himself, in his speech to the soldiers, mentions the same space of time: "It is now the sixth day since I was adopted Caesar." Tacit. Hist. lib. 1: cap. 29. Nevertheless the same Tacitus, lib. 1: cap. 48 tells us, that he was Caesar only four days; and cap. 19 of the same book, that there were only four days between his being created Caesar and his death. See Matthew 12:40.
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Luke 9:28
28 And it came to pass about an eight days after these sayings,a he took Peter and John and James, and went up into a mountain to pray.