World English Bible
Mark 9:12
“He said to them, "Elijah indeed comes first, and restores all things. How is it written about the Son of Man, that he should suffer many things and be despised?”
Verse in context — Mark 9
10
They kept this saying to themselves, questioning what the "rising from the dead" meant.
11
They asked him, saying, "Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?
12
He said to them, "Elijah indeed comes first, and restores all things. How is it written about the Son of Man, that he should suffer many things and be despised?
13
But I tell you that Elijah has come, and they have also done to him whatever they wanted to, even as it is written about him.
14
Coming to the disciples, he saw a great multitude around them, and scribes questioning them.
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