2 Peter 1:16
For we have not gone after fables artfully framed, in making known to you the power and advent of our Lord Jesus the Messiah; but it was after we had been spectators of his majesty.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
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Matthew 24:3And as Jesus sat on the mount of Olives, his disciples came, and said between themselves and him: Tell us when these things are to be; and what will be the sign of thy coming, and of the consummation of the world.
Matthew 28:18And Jesus came near, and discoursed with them, and said to them: All authority is given to me, in heaven and on earth. And as my Father sent me, so also I send you.
Luke 9:28And it was about eight days after these discourses, that Jesus took Simon and James and John, and went up a mountain to pray.
John 17:2As thou hast given him authority over all flesh, that he might give life eternal to as many as thou hast given him.
1 Corinthians 1:7so that ye are not inferior in any one of his gifts; but are waiting for the manifestation of our Lord Jesus Messiah:
Matthew Henry on 2 Peter 1:13-16
Spiritual Exertions. ( a. d. 67.) 12 Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth. 13 Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance; 14 Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath showed me. 15 Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance. I. The… Read the whole commentary →