Overshadowed them (επεσκιαζεν αυτους). Imperfect active as present participle in Mr 9:7, inchoative, the shadow began to come upon…

Theophylact of Ohrid: While Christ is engaged in prayer, Peter is heavy with sleep, for he was weak and did what was natura…

The cloud, like other elements in this narrative, can symbolize more than one thing, among them the cloud in the desert after the Exodus ([Referenc…

While he thus spake there came a cloud
While Peter was making the above request, before an answer was returned, a cl…

Christ's transfiguration was a glimpse of that glory in which He will come to judge the world and was an encouragement to His disciples to suffer f…