Mark 9:2-13  New English Translation

The Transfiguration

² Six days later^[a] Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John and led them alone up a high mountain privately. And he was transfigured before them,^{[b] 3} and his clothes became radiantly white, more so than any launderer in the world could bleach them. ⁴ Then Elijah appeared before them along with Moses,^[c] and they were talking with Jesus. ⁵ So^[d] Peter said to Jesus,^[e] “Rabbi, it is good for us to be here. Let us make three shelters^[f]—one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.” ⁶ (For they were afraid, and he did not know what to say.)^{[g] 7} Then^[h] a cloud^[i] overshadowed them,^[j] and a voice came from the cloud, “This is my one dear Son.^[k] Listen to him!”^{[l] 8} Suddenly when they looked around, they saw no one with them any more except Jesus.

⁹ As they were coming down from the mountain, he gave them orders not to tell anyone what they had seen until after the Son of Man had risen from the dead. ¹⁰ They kept this statement to themselves, discussing what this rising from the dead meant.

¹¹ Then^[m] they asked him,^[n] “Why do the experts in the law^[o] say that Elijah must come first?” ¹² He said to them, “Elijah does indeed come first, and restores all things. And why is it written that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be despised? ¹³ But I tell you that Elijah has certainly come, and they did to him whatever they wanted, just as it is written about him.”