And he became very hungry, and would have eaten: but while they made ready, he fell into a trance,
And he became very hungry, and would have eaten, х eethelen (G2309) geusasthai (G1089)] - rather, 'wished to eat.' It was meal-time, indeed; but his being "very hungry" х prospeinos (G4361)] was no doubt a special preparation for what was to follow.
But while they made ready, х autoon (G846), not ekeinoon (G1565) - as in the Received Text-is the true reading; and so Lachmann and Tischendorf],
He fell into a trance, х egeneto (G1096) is preferable to epepesen (G1968), of the Received Text.] In a state of "trance," the ordinary consciousness, and the perceptions of the external world, seem to have been in abeyance; things which, in ordinary circumstances would be invisible, being exclusively seen. In the state of 'vision,' this cessation of the ordinary laws of sense and perception probably did not exist, or took place but partially.