Word Pictures in the New Testament - David Cox

Word Pictures in the NT [Luke: Chapter 9].
details on Mark and Matthew. {Master} (\Epistata\) here, {Rabbi}
(Mr 9:5), {Lord} (\Kurie\, Mt 17:4). {Let us make}
(\poi•s•men\, first aorist active subjunctive) as in Mr 9:5,
but Mt 17:4 has "I will make" (\poi•s•\). It was near the time
of the feast of the tabernacles. So Peter proposes that they
celebrate it up here instead of going to Jerusalem for it as they
did a bit later (Joh 7). {Not knowing what he said} (\m• eid•s
ho legei\). Literally, {not understanding what he was saying}
(\m•\, regular negative with participle and \legei\, present
indicative retained in relative clause in indirect discourse).
Luke puts it more bluntly than Mark (Peter's account), "For he
wist not what to answer; for they became sore afraid" (Mr 9:6).
Peter acted according to his impulsive nature and spoke up even
though he did not know what to say or even what he was saying
when he spoke. He was only half awake as Luke explains and he was
sore afraid as Mark (Peter) explains. He had bewilderment enough
beyond a doubt, but it was Peter who spoke, not James and John.
9:34 {Overshadowed them} (\epeskiazen autous\). Imperfect active
(aorist in Mt 17:5) as present participle in Mr 9:7,
inchoative, the shadow began to come upon them. On Hermon as on
many high mountains a cloud will swiftly cover the cap. I have
seen this very thing at Blue Ridge, North Carolina. This same
verb is used of the Holy Spirit upon Mary (Lu 1:35). Nowhere
else in the N.T., though an old verb (\epi, skiaz•\, from \skia\,
shadow). {As they entered into the cloud} (\en t•i eiselthein
autous eis t•n nephel•n\). Luke's idiom of \en\ with the
articular infinitive again (aorist active this time, on the
entering in as to them). All six "entered into" the cloud, but
only Peter, James, and John "became afraid" (\ephob•th•san\,
ingressive first aorist passive).
9:35 If \ekeinous\ be accepted here instead of \autous\, the
three disciples would be outside of the cloud. {Out of the cloud}
(\ek t•s nephel•s\). This voice was the voice of the Father like
that at the baptism of Jesus (Lu 3:22; Mr 1:11; Mt 3:17) and
like that near the end (Joh 12:28-30) when the people thought
it was a clap of thunder or an angel. {My son, my chosen} (\Ho
huios mou, ho eklelegmenos\). So the best documents (Aleph B L
Syriac Sinaitic). The others make it "My Beloved" as in Mr 9:7;
Mt 17:5. These disciples are commanded to hear Jesus, God's Son,
even when he predicts his death, a pointed rebuke to Simon Peter
as to all.
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