Charles Spurgeon Commentary Matthew 17:8

"And lifting up their eyes, they saw no one, save Jesus only." — Matthew 17:8 (ASV)

And they did not want any other man save Jesus only. Let Moses, and Elijah, and all others go, so long as Christ remains.

There will be the most blessed company for us so long as he abides with us.

Closed were their eyes, because of “the too transporting light,” and they dared not open them until they felt the touch of Jesus. Then they lifted up their eyes. What did they see?

Moses, and Elias, and the exceeding brightness had all gone, and they had returned to the commonplaces of their life with Jesus. “They saw no man,” but they had lost nothing, since Jesus remained. They had gained by the vanishing of the shining ones, since they could see Jesus all the better and their attention was not divided.

The vision of His transfiguration had blinded them, had stupefied them, but to see “Jesus only” was to return to practical life and to have the best of all sights still left to them. Oh, that we also may have the eye of our mind so fixed on the Lord as our one object, that HE may fill the whole field of our vision, and we may see Jesus only!