Matthew 17:1 (WEB)
After six days, Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John his brother, and brought them up into a high mountain by themselves.
Catechism · 1
“In this context the mysterious episode of Jesus' Transfiguration takes place on a high mountain,” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Mt 17:1-8 and parallels; 2 Pt 1:16-18.
Fathers and councils · 13
Irenaeus of Lyons
“Again, five men are said to have been with the Lord when He obtained testimony from the Father,—namely, Peter, and James, and John, and Moses, and Elias.” — editor's note: Matt. xvii. 1.
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Augustine of Hippo
Chapter LVI.—Of the Manifestation Which the Lord Made of Himself, in Company with Moses and Elias, to His Disciples on the Mountain; And of the Question Concerning the Harmony Between the First Three Evangelists with…
Read the whole comment“We have an example of this in the case of the “eight days,” after which, as they tell us, He went up into a mountain,—a space which is given by Matthew and Mark as “six days after,” because they look simply at the days between the one from which the reckoning commences and the one with which it closes.” — editor's note: Matt. xvii. 1; Mark ix. 1.
Read the whole comment“On the words of the Gospel, Matt. xvii. 1, “After six days Jesus taketh with Him Peter, and James, and John his brother,” etc.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“His face shone on the Mount, His fame in the world.” — editor's note: Matt. xvii. 1, 2.
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John Chrysostom
“Seems it to thee a small thing that, when he had heard, “Follow Me,” he straightway left his nets, and his father, and followed; and that Christ took him alone with Peter into the mountain, ( Matt. xvii. 1 ,) and another time again when He went into a house? ( Luke viii. 51.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment““And after six days He taketh with Him Peter and James and John.”” — editor's note: Matt. xvii. 1.
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Jerome
“We shall make our way to Tabor, and see the tabernacles there which the Saviour shares, not, as Peter once wished, with Moses and Elijah, but with the Father and with the Holy Ghost.” — editor's note: Matt. xvii. 1–9.
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Tertullian
“Deservedly, therefore, even while in the flesh, did the Lord show Himself to him, the colleague of His own fasts, no less than to Elijah.” — editor's note: See Matt. xvii. 1–13; Mark ix. 1–13; Luke ix. 28–36.
Read the whole comment“…husbandry is adultery; while, in the revelation of His own glory, He prefers, from among so many saints and prophets, to have with him Moses and Elias—the one a monogamist, the other a voluntary celibate (for Elias was nothing else than John, who came “in the power and spirit of Elias”); while that “man…” — editor's note: See Matt. xvii. 1–8; Mark ix. 2–9; Luke ix. 28–36.
Read the whole comment“Of what could He have meant those to be ignorant, to whom He even exhibited His own glory with Moses and Elias, and the Father’s voice moreover, from heaven?” — editor's note: Matt. xvii. 1–8.
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Leo the Great
“A Homily delivered on the Saturday before the Second Sunday in Lent—on the Transfiguration, S. Matt. xvii. 1–13” — the author cites it
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Hippolytus of Rome
“And he says, as the result of this computation and that proportion, that in the similitude of an image He appeared who after the six days Himself ascended the mountain a fourth person, and became the sixth.” — editor's note: Christ went up with the three apostles, and was therefore the fourth Himself; by the presence of Moses and Elias, He became the sixth: Matt. xvii. 1; Mark ix.…
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Cross-references · 3
Parallel passages
Matthew 17:1 and Mark 9:2 share the same wording (15 words).
Cited together with
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies VI.42.
Cited together in Harmony of the Gospels II.57.