Luke 9:28
And it came to pass about an eight days after these sayings, he took Peter and John and James, and went up into a mountain to pray.
KJV
Ἐγένετο δὲ μετὰ τοὺς λόγους τούτους, ὡσεὶ ἡμέραι ὀκτώ, καὶ παραλαβὼν Πέτρον καὶ Ἰωάννην καὶ Ἰάκωβον ἀνέβη εἰς τὸ ὄρος προσεύξασθαι.
Greek NT
Factum est autem post hæc verba fere dies octo, et assumpsit Petrum, et Jacobum, et Joannem, et ascendit in montem ut oraret.
Vulgate
And it came to pass about eight days after these sayings, that he took with him Peter and John and James, and went up into the mountain to pray.
ASV
And it came to pass, about eight days after these words, that he took Peter and James and John and went up into a mountain to pray.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
18 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Πέτρος
petros
noun · 154×
γίνομαι
ginomai
verb · 667×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
εἰς
eis
preposition · 1769×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
λόγος
logos
noun · 330×
μετά
meta
preposition · 469×
οὗτος
outos
demonstrative · 1380×
παραλαμβάνω
paralambano
verb · 49×
προσεύχομαι
proseuchomai
verb · 85×
ἀναβαίνω
anabaino
verb · 81×
ἡμέρα
emera
noun · 388×
Ἰάκωβος
iakobos
noun · 42×
Ἰωάννης
ioannes
noun · 134×
ὀκτώ
okto
adjective · 10×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὄρος
oros
noun · 64×
ὡσεί
osei
adverb · 20×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
trivial
SBLGNT: καὶ | Treg/NIV/RP: καὶ
- καὶ — SBLGNT
- καὶ — Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
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Historic Christian voices
8 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§2600The Gospel according to St. Luke emphasizes the action of the Holy Spirit and the meaning of prayer in Christ's ministry. Jesus prays before the decisive moments of his mission: before his Father's witness to him during his baptism and Transfiguration, and before his own fulfillment of the Father's plan of love by his Passion.43 He also prays before the decisive moments involvi…
2. And after six days He takes with Him Peter and James and John. Matthew 17:1 Now another says, after eight, Luke 9:28 not contradicting this writer, but most fully agreeing with him. For the one expressed both the very day on which He spoke, and that on which He led them up; but the other, the days between them only. But mark thou, I pray you, the severe goodness of Matthew, …
1. Concerning Those Who Asked Him to Show Them a Sign from Heaven. And the Sadducees and Pharisees came, and tempting Him kept asking Him to show them a sign from heaven. Matthew 16:1 The Sadducees and Pharisees who disagreed with each other in regard to the most essential truths, — for the Pharisees champion the doctrine of the resurrection of the dead, hoping that there will …
Chapter 1. Summary of the Foregoing Books, and Scope of that Which Follows. I. The man who fears God seeks diligently in Holy Scripture for a knowledge of His will. And when he has become meek through piety, so as to have no love of strife; when furnished also with a knowledge of languages, so as not to be stopped by unknown words and forms of speech, and with the knowledge of …
Cross-references
- 2Pet 1:16 — For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
- John 6:3 — And Jesus went up into a mountain, and there he sat with his disciples.
- Luke 6:12 — And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.
- Luke 8:51 — And when he came into the house, he suffered no man to go in, save Peter, and James, and John, and the father and the mother of the maiden.
- Luke 11:1 — And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.
- Mark 9:2 — And after six days Jesus taketh with him Peter, and James, and John, and leadeth them up into an high mountain apart by themselves: and he was transfigured before them.
- Mark 9:2 — And after six days Jesus taketh with him Peter, and James, and John, and leadeth them up into an high mountain apart by themselves: and he was transfigured before them.
- Mark 14:33 — And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy;
- Matt 14:23 — And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray: and when the evening was come, he was there alone.
- Matt 17:1 — And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart,
- Matt 17:1 — And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart,
- Matt 26:37 — And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy.
- Ps 109:4 — For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.