as they departed Rather, were parting.

it is good for us to be here The word is not agathon, but kalon; it is an excellent thing, or -it is best" (cf. Matthew 17:4; Matthew 26:24).

tabernacles like the little wattled booths(succoth), which the Israelites made for themselves at the Feast of Tabernacles. The use of skenoma in 2 Peter 1:13 (Matthew 17:4) is another sign that the mind of the writer was full of this scene.

not biowing what he said Not knowing that the spectacle on Calvary was to be more transcendent and divine than that of Hermon, not knowing that the old was passing away and all things becoming new; not knowing that Jesus was not to die with Moses and Elijah on either side, but between two thieves.

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