Mark 9:10-16 (30th Thursday after Pentecost)

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Mark 9:10-16 (30th Thursday after Pentecost)

(About 30th Thursday after Pentecost – see “Lukan Jump” )

At that time,  they kept the matter to themselves, questioning what the rising from the dead meant.  And they asked him, “Why do the scribes say that first Eli’jah must come?”  And he said to them, “Eli’jah does come first to restore all things; and how is it written of the Son of man, that he should suffer many things and be treated with contempt?  But I tell you that Eli’jah has come, and they did to him whatever they pleased, as it is written of him.”  And when they came to the disciples, they saw a great crowd about them, and scribes arguing with them.  And immediately all the crowd, when they saw him, were greatly amazed, and ran up to him and greeted him.  And he asked them, “What are you discussing with them?”