And straightway all the people, when they beheld him, were greatly amazed, and running to him saluted him.
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Gill's Exposition
And straightway all the people, when they beheld him,.... As soon as ever they saw him, to many of whom, especially those that followed him out of Galilee, he was personally known.
Were greatly…
See this passage explained in the notes at Mat 17:14-21. Mar 9:14 Questioning with them - Debating with the disciples, and attempting to confound them. This he saw as he came down from the mount. In…
Adam Clarke
Were greatly amazed - Probably, because he came so unexpectedly; but the cause of this amazement is not self-evident.
We have here the story of Christ casting the devil out of a child, somewhat more fully related than it was in Mat 17:14, etc. Observe here,
I. Christ's return to his disciples, and the perplexity he…
Cambridge Bible
were greatly amazed "was astonied and much afraid," Rhemish Version. His face would seem, like that of Moses (Exo 34:30), to have retained traces of the celestial glory of the Holy Mount, which had…