And after six days Jesus took Peter, James, and John his brother, and brought them up into a high mountain apart,
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
Why does he take only these three with him? Because each one of these three was elevated above the rest. Peter showed his preeminence by exceedingly loving him; John by being exceedingly loved by him. James showed his superiority by his ready response to his brother: we are able to drink the cup and by his works and by doing what he said. For so earnest was James, and grievous to the Jews, that Herod himself imagined that he had bestowed a great favor on the Jews by killing him. The Gospel of Matthew, Homily
