Mark 9 is the ninth chapter of the Gospel of Mark in the

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of the Christian

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. It begins with

Jesus Jesus, likely from he, יֵשׁוּעַ, translit=Yēšūaʿ, label= Hebrew/ Aramaic ( AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ or Jesus of Nazareth (among other names and titles), was a first-century Jewish preacher and religiou ...

' prediction that "I tell you the

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, some who are standing here will not taste

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before they see that the kingdom of God has come with power". The chapter then recounts the

transfiguration of Jesus In the New Testament, the Transfiguration of Jesus is an event where Jesus is transfigured and becomes radiant in glory upon a mountain. The Synoptic Gospels (, , ) describe it, and the Second Epistle of Peter also refers to it (). In these ...

, a healing

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, and Jesus' teaching about the return of

Elijah Elijah ( ; he, אֵלִיָּהוּ, ʾĒlīyyāhū, meaning "My El (deity), God is Yahweh/YHWH"; Greek form: Elias, ''Elías''; syr, ܐܸܠܝܼܵܐ, ''Elyāe''; Arabic language, Arabic: إلياس or إليا, ''Ilyās'' or ''Ilyā''. ) w ...

humility Humility is the quality of being humble. Dictionary definitions accentuate humility as a low self-regard and sense of unworthiness. In a religious context humility can mean a recognition of self in relation to a deity (i.e. God), and subsequent ...

and

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Text

The original text was written in

Koine Greek Koine Greek (; Koine el, ἡ κοινὴ διάλεκτος, hē koinè diálektos, the common dialect; ), also known as Hellenistic Greek, common Attic, the Alexandrian dialect, Biblical Greek or New Testament Greek, was the common supra-reg ...

. This chapter is divided into 50 verses (49 verses in the Douai-Rheims version.

Textual witnesses

Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter are: *

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(325-350; complete) *

Codex Sinaiticus The Codex Sinaiticus ( Shelfmark: London, British Library, Add MS 43725), designated by siglum [Aleph] or 01 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts), δ 2 (in the von Soden numbering of New Testament manuscript ...

(330-360; complete) *

Codex Bezae The Codex Bezae Cantabrigiensis, designated by siglum D or 05 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts), δ 5 (in the von Soden of New Testament manuscript), is a codex of the New Testament dating from the 5th century writ ...

(~400; complete) *

Codex Alexandrinus The Codex Alexandrinus (London, British Library, Royal MS 1. D. V-VIII), designated by the siglum A or 02 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts), δ 4 (in the von Soden numbering of New Testament manuscripts), is a manu ...

(400-440; complete) * Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus (~450; complete)

Locations

The events recorded in this chapter take place on "a high mountain" (traditionally understood to be

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), in a nearby town, around Galilee and back in

Capernaum Capernaum ( ; he, כְּפַר נַחוּם, Kfar Naḥum, Nahum's village; ar, كفر ناحوم, Kafr Nāḥūm) was a fishing village established during the time of the Hasmoneans, located on the northern shore of the Sea of Galilee. It ...

. From Mount Tabor to Capernaum is about along modern Highway 65.

Verse 1

:''There are some standing here who will not taste death until they see that the kingdom of God has come with'' (or'' in) power.'' 2 Peter had a relationship with the Gospel tradition, mainly in the

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, ''1:4'' with Mark 9:1; ''1:11'' with Mark 9:1; ''1:16,18'' with Mark 9:2-10; ''1:17'' with Matthew 17:5; ''1:19'' with Mark 9:4. Anglican biblical scholar Edward Plumptre argues that this verse should be read with the final section of

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and suggests that the present arrangement may have been made with a view of connecting it with the Transfiguration as the fulfilment of the promise in this verse. This verse is numbered as Mark 8:39 in the Douai-Rheims Bible. What exactly the kingdom of

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refers to has been long debated. It immediately follows Jesus' statement of "... when he comes in his Father's glory with the holy

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." (

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br>8:38
in the preceding chapter. This could simply refer to the following Transfiguration. Some have thought this refers to the

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, an event most hold did not happen within the lifetimes of those present. This could be a prediction that came true if you take into account John's

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of the Second Coming while he was on the island of

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. Others have interpreted it as Jesus referring to his

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and/or the coming of

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. It is also recorded in Matthewbr>16:28
and Lukebr>9:27
Matthew adds the statement that "... then he will reward each person according to what he has done" between the two.

The Transfiguration

Six days pass and then Jesus takes

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and

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up an unnamed high mountain, which many came to believe was

. Suddenly, Jesus' clothes become dazzingly white "... whiter than anyone in the world could bleach them."
3
and

and Moses appear. The disciples are stunned (for the first time Mark uses the term

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and ask what they should do and offer to put up shelters or 'tabernacles' for them. A

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overshadows them and a voice comes from the cloud saying "This is my Son, whom I love. Listen to him!"
7
which is what Jesus heard the "voice from heaven" say when he was baptised by John the Baptist in

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() but now Mark has Peter, James, and John as witnesses to this. Elijah and Moses disappear and they head down the mountain. On the way down the mountain, Jesus tells them to keep what had happened to themselves until the Son of Man has risen from the dead. They do not ask him to clarify this but they question among themselves what this "rising from the dead" might mean. For

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, the disciples' discussion "seems to imply that they do not understand what resurrection in general means. This seems incredible in historical terms:

was a well-known idea in he

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of the period". He suggests that verse 10 may be either "a highly artificial note by Mark to bolster his motif of the disciples' lack of understanding", or a reference "specifically to the resurrection of the Son of Man" distinct from the general resurrection.Tuckett, C. M., ''57. Mark'' in Barton, J. and Muddiman, J. (2001)
The Oxford Bible Commentary
, p. 904 In possibly a separate discussion, Peter, James and John then ask Jesus about the coming of Elijah (Elias), and he says: :''... 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. But I say unto you, That Elias is indeed come, and they have done unto him whatsoever they listed, as it is written of him.'' () KJV It was commonly believed that Elijah would reappear before the coming of the

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, as predicted in

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Matthe
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states that the three of them believed Jesus was comparing Elijah to

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. The imprisonment and death of John the Baptist () may be compared to the persecution of Elijah by

Jezebel Jezebel (;"Jezebel"
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().Robertson, W. R.
Expositor's Greek Testament on Mark 9
accessed 27 November 2017 Moses can be seen as a representative of the

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and Elijah a representative of the

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. This whole passage has echoes of Exodusbr>24
where clouds covered

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for six days before Moses went up to receive the

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. The original

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uses the word ''metamorphothe'' which was translated into

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as ''Trans Figura'', the changing of appearance or of the body itself.

The Possessed Boy

They arrive back and find the rest of the disciples arguing with several teachers of the law surrounded by a crowd. As Jesus returns, the crowd are "amazed" at him: the

New Revised Standard Version The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) is an English translation of the Bible published in 1989 by the National Council of Churches.awe", suggesting that his appearance "still retained traces of His transfiguration-glory". Jesus asks the crowd "What are you arguing about?" (verse 16) and a man says he brought his possessed boy for Jesus to heal. The boy has a mute spirit and "foams at the mouth, gnashes his teeth and becomes rigid" - symptoms of

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, which Matthew states to be the case. The man says the boy has been made to fall both into water and fire by the demon. Jesus' disciples could not heal him. Jesus says "You faithless generation" (v 19). He commands the boy be brought to him. The father begs Jesus to help the boy ''if'' he can, to which Jesus replies ''"Everything is possible for him who believes''", and the man says "I believe. Help my unbelief!" (verse 24, only in Mark's account). Jesus heals the boy: when asked by the disciples privately why they could not cast it out, he replies "This kind can come out only through

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and

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" (verse 29). Some early manuscripts and modern versions omit the reference to fasting.

Predictions about the crucifixion

Jesus tells his entire group again that the Son of Man will be betrayed into the hands of men, killed, and after three days he will rise again. This is the second prediction of the Passion in Mark's Gospel, although in the first prediction there is no reference to

betrayal Betrayal is the breaking or violation of a presumptive contract, trust, or confidence that produces moral and psychological conflict within a relationship amongst individuals, between organizations or between individuals and organizations. ...

. Theologian Marvin Vincent notes that the Greek reads "ἐδίδασκεν" (''edidasken''), and the Revised Version would have done better to give the force of the

imperfect The imperfect ( abbreviated ) is a verb form that combines past tense (reference to a past time) and imperfective aspect (reference to a continuing or repeated event or state). It can have meanings similar to the English "was walking" or "used to ...

here: ''He was teaching''. He sought seclusion because he was engaged for the time in instructing. The teaching was the continuation of the "began to teach" (Mark 8:31)". Jesus' disciples still do not understand what he means but they are

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to ask him to clarify himself.

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notes that "they had heard the statement before, and had not forgotten the fact, and their Master had spoken too explicitly for them to be in any doubt as to His meaning. What they were ignorant of was the ''why''".

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dismiss these predictions as not actually made by the real Jesus but regard them as an example of

vaticinium ex eventu ''vāticinium ex ēventū'' (, "prophecy from the event") or ''post eventum'' ("after the event") is a technical theological or historiographical term referring to a prophecy written after the author already had information about the events bein ...

. Scholars such as

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believe, however, that "the difficulty in dismissing all these predictions as totally postJesus creations is exemplified i
9:31
where many scholars recognize Semitic features and old tradition." (140)

Teaching in Capernaum

They go back to

and in the house, Jesus asks what the disciples were discussing or arguing about on the road. They do not answer, because they had been arguing about who was, or who would be, the greatest disciple, possibly because Jesus only took three of them with him up the mountain and the remaining nine could not cure the boy. In Matthew's account, the subject was introduced by the disciples themselves, who came and asked Jesus who should be greatest. Jesus already knows what they had been talking about, however, and he summons the twelve, sits down with them (καθίσας, ''kathisas'', indicating that Jesus takes His seat in a deliberate attempt to school the disciples) and instructs them: :''If anyone wants to be first, he must be the very last, and the servant of all''. He takes a child (verse 36, but verse 35 in the Douai-Rheims version) in his arms and says whoever welcomes children welcomes him and therefore God. John says some other group of people have been healing people in Jesus' name even though they were not part of the group, but Jesus is pleased and says "... For he who is not against us is for us." (). In and Jesus says: "He who is not with Me is against Me"; see also You're either with us, or against us. The disciples seem to think one needs to be part of Jesus' personal group but Jesus makes clear that anyone who works in his name and does his work is also for him. He then gives one of the most forceful condemnations of

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in the Bible (see Stumbling block): :''And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea. And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched: Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched: Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire: Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt. Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have

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one with another.''
42-50
KJV Hinnom Valley

The text quotes the final verse of the Book of Isaiah: :''"And they will go out and look on the dead bodies of those who rebelled against me; the worms that eat them will not die, the fire that burns them will not be quenched, and they will be loathsome to all mankind"''. The Pulpit Commentary observes that the bodies cast into hell "could not be at the same time burnt with fire and eaten by worms".Pulpit Commentary on Isaiah 66
accessed 30 November 2017 The original manuscripts use the term "τὴν γέενναν" (''tēn geennan'') '' Gehenna'' for Hell. Gehenna was a trash dump next to

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in the Hinnom valley, where the dead bodies of criminals as well as trash were burned. The valley was named after a man named Hinnom who had owned it. It had at one time been used as a place to sacrifice live children to Pagan

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. What exactly the "salt" Jesus was referring to was is unclear. Jesus relates it to

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, the

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, and peace. Salt was seen as a thing of purity, but salt also has destructive properties and was used as a preservative. "Salt" might simply refer to his teaching. It also might be seen as an interlocking double

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relating the salt required in sacrifices to God found in Leviticusbr>2:11,13
to the "salt" of the sacrifice of Christ and to the "salt" required to be in followers of Jesus as metaphorical sacrifices as in

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br>12
and also relating the salt of the

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from Leviticusbr>2:11,13
to the "salt" of the

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or renewed covenant. Se
Salt in Mark
and also

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Comparison with other canonical gospels

Luk
9
has almost the entire chapter of Mark 9 contained verbatim with the notable exception of the speech about sin that is partly contained in Luke, chapte
17
Matthew has the Transfiguration and the possessed boy followed by a slightly altered and expanded scene in Capernaum in chapter
17
an
18

lists none of this, which has puzzled many scholars since one would think John, since he was one of the only three there, would mention the Transfiguration. This could mean that Mark is wrong about either the event or John being there, the Gospel of John was not written by the

Apostle John John the Apostle ( grc, Ἰωάννης; la, Ioannes ; Ge'ez: ዮሐንስ;) or Saint John the Beloved was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus according to the New Testament. Generally listed as the youngest apostle, he was the son of Zebedee ...

, or John knew the

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were circulating and wrote his gospel to fill in details he thought lacking in them.

References

External links

* King James Bible - Wikisource
English Translation with Parallel Latin Vulgate''Online Bible'' at GospelHall.org
(ESV, KJV, Darby, American Standard Version, Bible in Basic English)
Multiple bible versions at ''Bible Gateway''
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