Mark 9:6-12

⁶For he did not know what to say, because they were much afraid.

⁷Then a cloud came down and enveloped them; and from the cloud there came a voice — “This is my dearly loved son; listen to him.”

⁸And suddenly, on looking around, they saw that there was now no one with them but Jesus alone.

⁹As they were going down the mountainside, Jesus cautioned them not to relate what they had seen to anyone, until after the Son of Man had risen from the dead.

¹⁰They seized on these words and discussed with one another what this ‘rising from the dead’ meant.

¹¹“How is it,” they asked Jesus, “that our teachers of the Law say that Elijah has to come first?”

¹²“Elijah does indeed come first,” answered Jesus, “and re-establish everything; and does not scripture speak, with regard to the Son of Man, of his undergoing much suffering and being utterly despised?