5 Or, was past.
a The tradition which places the Transfiguration on Mount Tabor is beyond question false.
b Probably not long before the feast of tabernacles (near end of September) and Peter may have meant that they celebrate the feast on the mountains instead of going to Jerusalem.
c See [§ 24] for similar language at the Baptism of Jesus.
§ 86. THE PUZZLE OF THE THREE DISCIPLES ABOUT THE RESURRECTION AND ABOUT ELIJAH ON THEIR WAY DOWN THE MOUNTAIN
| Mark 9:9-13 | Matt. 17:9-13 | Luke 9:36 |
| 9 And as they were coming down from the mountain, he charged them that they should tell no man what things they had seen, save when the Son of man should have risen again from the dead. 10 And they kept the saying, questioning among themselves what the rising again from the dead should mean. 11 And they asked him, saying, 1The scribes say that Elijah must first come. 12 And he said unto them, Elijah indeed cometh first, and restoreth all things: and how is it written of the Son of man, that he should suffer many things and be set at nought? 13 But I say unto you, that Elijah is come, and they have also done unto him whatsoever they listed, even as it is written of him. | 9 And as they were coming down from the mountain, Jesus commanded them, saying, Tell the vision to no man, until the Son of man be risen from the dead. 10 And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elijah must first come [see Mal. 4:5-6]? 11 And he answered and said, Elijah indeed cometh, and shall restore all things: 12 but I say unto you, that Elijah is come already,a and they knew him not, but did unto him whatsoever they listed [see 1 Kings 19:2, 10]. Even so shall the Son of man also suffer of them. 13 Then understood the disciples that he spake unto them of John the Baptist. | 36 And they held their peace, and told no man in those days any of the things which they had seen. |
1 Or, How is it that the scribes say ... come?
a The Baptist's disclaimer about being Elijah ([John 1:21]) means only that he was not Elijah in person come back to earth according to popular expectation.