Mark 9:11
And they asked him, saying, Why say the scribes that Elias must first come?In other versions
And they asked him, saying, `How is it' that the scribes say that Elijah must first come?
ASV
And they put a question to him, saying, Why do the scribes say that Elijah has to come first?
BBE
And they asked him saying, Why do the scribes say that Elias must first have come?
DBY
They asked him, saying, "Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?"
WEB
And they were questioning him, saying, that the scribes say that Elijah it behoveth to come first.
YLT
And they asked him, saying, Why say the scribes that Elijah must first come?
ENG
And they asked him, saying, Why say the scribes that Elijah must first come?
WBT
And they asked Jesus, “Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”
BSB
In context
9And as they came down from the mountain, he charged them that they should tell no man what things they had seen, till the Son of man were risen from the dead.
10And they kept that saying with themselves, questioning one with another what the rising from the dead should mean.
11And they asked him, saying, Why say the scribes that Elias must first come?
12And he answered and told them, Elias verily cometh first, and restoreth all things; and how it is written of the Son of man, that he must suffer many things, and be set at nought.
13But I say unto you, That Elias is indeed come, and they have done unto him whatsoever they listed, as it is written of him.
Cross-references
People in this verse
- Elijah