Mark 9:7 KJV

Mark · chapter 9 · verse 7

And there was a cloud that overshadowed them: and a voice came out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son: hear him.Mark 9:7 · King James Version

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Mark 9:7 in context

5And Peter answered and said to Jesus, Master, it is good for us to be here: and let us make three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias.

6For he wist not what to say; for they were sore afraid.

7And there was a cloud that overshadowed them: and a voice came out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son: hear him.

8And suddenly, when they had looked round about, they saw no man any more, save Jesus only with themselves.

9And as they came down from the mountain, he charged them that they should tell no man what things they had seen, till the Son of man were risen from the dead.

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Commentary

Here is, I. A prediction of Christ's kingdom now near approaching, Mar 9:1. That which is foretold, is, 1. That the kingdom of God would come, and would come so as to be seen: the kingdom of the Messiah shall be set up in the world by the utter destruction of the Jewish polity, which stood in the way of it;

— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-13

Cross references

2 Peter 1:17

Key words (Strong's)

overshadowedepiskiazōto throw a shadow upon, to envelop in a shadow, to overshadowG1982 →
belovedagapētosbeloved, esteemed, dear, favourite, worthy of loveG27 →
sayinglegōto say, to speak, affirm over, maintain, to teach, to exhort, advise, to command, direct…G3004 →
cloudnephelēa cloud, used of the cloud which led the Israelites in the wildernessG3507 →
voicephōnēa sound, a tone, of inanimate things, as musical instruments, a voice, of the sound of…G5456 →
cameerchomaito come, of persons, to come from one place to another, and used both of persons arriving…G2064 →

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