and his clothes became radiant, intensely white, as no one on earth could bleach them.
Here is, I. A prediction of Christ's kingdom now near approaching, Mar 9:1. That which is foretold, is, 1. That the kingdom of God would come, and would come so as to be seen: the kingdom of the Messiah shall be set up in the world by the utter destruction of the Jewish polity, which stood in the way of it; this was the restoring...
Commenting on Mark 9:1-13
And his raiment became shining,.... With the rays of glory and brightness which darted from his body through his clothes, and made them as bright as the light of the sun at noon day: and exceeding white as snow; than which nothing is whiter; so as no fuller on earth can white them.
Verse 3. No fuller. Rather, no scourer. The office of the person here mentioned was to scour or whiten cloth; not to full it, or to render it thicker. (r) "exceeding white"