And when they were come to the multitude
Which was on the next day, as in ( Luke 9:37 ) when Christ
and his three disciples, Peter, James, and John, came down from
the mount to the other nine, with whom the multitude of the
people were; during their stay on the mountain,
there came to him a certain man;
who was, as Mark says, "one of the multitude"; and as Luke, "a
man of the company": who had applied to the nine disciples on the
behalf of his son, but without success, and was waiting till
Christ came from the mount; who when he saw him, made up to him,
and
kneeling down to him
in the manner of a supplicant, doing him homage and worship;
hereby showing his great esteem of him, and veneration for him,
and saying
the following words:
