36 When the voice came, Jesus was found alone. They were silent, and told no one in those days any of the things which they had seen.
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Jesus was found alone - That is, the two men had left him. In respect to "them" he was alone.
And when the voice was past, Jesus was found alone. And they kept [it] close, and told no man in (i) those days any of those things which they had seen.
(i) Until Christ was risen again from the dead.
And when, the voice was past,.... The above words were delivered, and it was heard no more: Jesus was found alone; by his disciples; Moses and Elias being gone, and he in the same form in which he was before his transfiguration.
And they kept it close; as Christ strictly charged them, when coming down from the mount with them; Matthew 17:9.
And told no man in those days any of those things which they had seen; no, not any of their fellow disciples, until that Christ was risen from the dead.
Jesus was found alone--Moses and Elias are gone. Their work is done, and they have disappeared from the scene, feeling no doubt with their fellow servant the Baptist, "He must increase, but I must decrease." The cloud too is gone, and the naked majestic Christ, braced in spirit, and enshrined in the reverent affection of His disciples, is left--to suffer!
kept it close--feeling, for once at least, that such things were unmeet as yet for the general gaze.
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