17:6 When the disciples heard this, they were overwhelmed with fear and threw themselves down with their faces to the ground. 1 17:7 But Jesus came and touched them. “Get up,” he said. “Do not be afraid.”
17:8 When 2 they looked up, all they saw was Jesus alone.
1 tnGrk “they fell down on their faces.” BDAG 815 s.v. πίπτω 1.b.α.ב. has “fall down, throw oneself to the ground as a sign of devotion, before high-ranking persons or divine beings.”