10 So they [a]kept that matter to themselves, and [b]demanded one of another, what the rising from the dead again should mean.

11 [c]Also they asked him, saying, Why say the Scribes, that (A)Elijah must first come?

12 And he answered, and said unto them, Elijah verily shall first come, and restore all things: and (B)as it is written of the Son of man, he must suffer many things, and be set at nought.

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 9:10 Even very hardly as it were.
  2. Mark 9:10 They questioned not together touching the general resurrection which shall be in the latter day, but they understood not what he meant by that which he spake of his own peculiar resurrection.
  3. Mark 9:11 The foolish opinion of the Rabbis is here repelled touching Elijah’s coming, which was that either Elijah should rise again from the dead, or that his soul should enter into some other body.

10 They kept the matter to themselves, discussing what “rising from the dead” meant.

11 And they asked him, “Why do the teachers of the law say that Elijah must come first?”

12 Jesus replied, “To be sure, Elijah does come first, and restores all things. Why then is it written that the Son of Man(A) must suffer much(B) and be rejected?(C)

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