If εκεινους be accepted here instead of αυτους, the three disciples would be outside of the cloud.

Out of the cloud (εκ της…

This is my beloved Son.—The better manuscripts read “chosen.” (Compare the use of a similar word in [Reference 1 Peter 2:…

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

The Voice speaking from the cloud is the awesome Voice of God the Father himself. The me age expre ed by the Voice is so clear that any uncertainty…

And there came, a voice out of the cloud
(See Gill on Matthew 17:5).

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…