Mark 9:11 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

Then His disciples asked Him, “Why is it, [since you are obviously the Messiah], that the experts in the Law of Moses say that Elijah must come first?”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And they asked him, saying, Why say the scribes that Elias must first come?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And they asked Him, Why do the scribes say that it is necessary for Elijah to come first? [Mal. 4:5, 6.]

American Standard Version (1901)

And they asked him, saying, How is it that the scribes say that Elijah must first come?

Common English Bible

They asked Jesus, “Why do the legal experts say that Elijah must come first?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

And in response, he said to them: "Elijah, when he will arrive first, shall restore all things. And in the manner that it has been written about the Son of man, so must he suffer many things and be condemned.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Who answering, said to them: Elias, when he shall come first, shall restore all things; and as it is written of the Son of man, that he must suffer many things and be despised.

Mark 9:11 Cross References

Matthew 11:14

And if you are willing to accept [this truth], this person [i.e., John] fulfills [the prophecy of] the coming of Elijah [See Mal. 4:5-6].

Mark 9:10

So, they kept what He told them to themselves, discussing [only] among themselves what “rising again from the dead” meant.

Mark 9:4

Then Elijah, along with Moses, appeared to them and they were talking with Jesus.