Parallel Verses
Webster
And they asked him, saying, Why say the scribes that Elijah must first come?
New American Standard Bible
They asked Him, saying, “Why is it that the scribes say that
King James Version
And they asked him, saying, Why say the scribes that Elias must first come?
Holman Bible
Then they began to question Him, “Why do the scribes
International Standard Version
So they asked him, "Don't the scribes say that Elijah must come first?"
A Conservative Version
And they questioned him, saying, The scholars say that Elijah must first come.
American Standard Version
And they asked him, saying, How is it that the scribes say that Elijah must first come?
Amplified
They asked Him, saying, “Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first [before the Messiah comes]?”
An Understandable Version
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?"
Anderson New Testament
And they asked him, saying: Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?
Bible in Basic English
And they put a question to him, saying, Why do the scribes say that Elijah has to come first?
Common New Testament
And they asked him, "Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?"
Daniel Mace New Testament
At length they started this question, why do the Scribes say, that Elias must first come?
Darby Translation
And they asked him saying, Why do the scribes say that Elias must first have come?
Godbey New Testament
And they asked Him, saying, that the scribes say, that it behooves Elijah first to come.
Goodspeed New Testament
And they asked him, "Why do the scribes say that Elijah has to come first?"
John Wesley New Testament
And they asked him, saying, Why say the scribes, that Elijah must come first?
Julia Smith Translation
And having asked him, saying, That the scribes say that Elias must first come.
King James 2000
And they asked him, saying, Why say the scribes that Elijah must first come?
Lexham Expanded Bible
And they asked him, saying, "{Why do} the scribes say that Elijah must come first?"
Modern King James verseion
And they asked Him, saying, Why do the scribes say that Elijah must first come?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And they asked him, saying, "Why then Say the scribes, that Elijah must first come?"
Moffatt New Testament
So they put this question to him, "Why do the [Pharisees and] scribes say that Elijah has to come first?"
Montgomery New Testament
So they asked him, "How is it that the Scribes say that Elijah must first come?"
NET Bible
Then they asked him, "Why do the experts in the law say that Elijah must come first?"
New Heart English Bible
They asked him, saying, "Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?"
Noyes New Testament
And they asked him, saying, How is it that the Pharisees and scribes say that Elijah must come first?
Sawyer New Testament
And they asked him, saying, Why do the scribes say that Elijah must first come?
The Emphasized Bible
And they began to question him, saying - The Scribes, say, that, Elijah, must needs come, first?
Thomas Haweis New Testament
And they asked him, saying, Why say the scribes, that Elias must come first?
Twentieth Century New Testament
"How is it," they asked Jesus, "that our Teachers of the Law say that Elijah has to come first?"
Weymouth New Testament
They also asked Him, "How is it that the Scribes say that Elijah must first come?"
Williams New Testament
Then they asked Him, "Why do the scribes say that Elijah has to come first?"
World English Bible
They asked him, saying, "Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?"
Worrell New Testament
And they were asking Him, saying, "How is it that the scribes say that Elijah must first come?"
Worsley New Testament
Then they asked Him, saying, Why do the scribes say, that Elias must come first?
Youngs Literal Translation
And they were questioning him, saying, that the scribes say that Elijah it behoveth to come first.
Interlinear
Eperotao
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in Mark 9:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Transfiguration
10 And they kept that saying with themselves, questioning one with another what the rising from the dead should mean. 11 And they asked him, saying, Why say the scribes that Elijah must first come? 12 And he answered and told them, Elijah verily cometh first, and restoreth all things; and how it is written concerning the Son of man, that he must suffer many things, and be set at naught.
Cross References
Matthew 11:14
And if ye will receive it, this is Elijah who was to come.
Malachi 4:5
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
Mark 9:4
And there appeared to them Elijah, with Moses: and they were talking with Jesus.
Malachi 3:1
Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, will suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he will come, saith the LORD of hosts.
Matthew 17:10-11
And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes, that Elijah must first come?