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</div> </div> <div id="bodyContent" class="vector-body" aria-labelledby="firstHeading" data-mw-ve-target-container> <div class="vector-body-before-content"> <div class="mw-indicators"> </div> <div id="siteSub" class="noprint">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</div> </div> <div id="contentSub"><div id="mw-content-subtitle"></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Chapter of the New Testament</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">This 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For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/Mark_IX_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Mark IX (disambiguation)">Mark IX</a>.</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above">Mark 9</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader"><div style="float: left;">← <a href="/wiki/Mark_8" title="Mark 8">chapter 8</a></div><div style="float: right;"><a href="/wiki/Mark_10" title="Mark 10">chapter 10</a> →</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:CodexGigas_517_Mark.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/CodexGigas_517_Mark.jpg/220px-CodexGigas_517_Mark.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="374" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/CodexGigas_517_Mark.jpg/330px-CodexGigas_517_Mark.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/CodexGigas_517_Mark.jpg/440px-CodexGigas_517_Mark.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4301" data-file-height="7319" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">The Latin text of Mark 8:13–11:10 in <a href="/wiki/Codex_Gigas" title="Codex Gigas">Codex Gigas</a> (13th century)</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Book</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Gospel_of_Mark" title="Gospel of Mark">Gospel of Mark</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Category</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Gospel" title="Gospel">Gospel</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Christian Bible part</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/New_Testament" title="New Testament">New Testament</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Order in the Christian part</th><td class="infobox-data">2</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Mark 9</b> is the ninth chapter of the <a href="/wiki/Gospel_of_Mark" title="Gospel of Mark">Gospel of Mark</a> in the <a href="/wiki/New_Testament" title="New Testament">New Testament</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christian</a> <a href="/wiki/Bible" title="Bible">Bible</a>. It begins with <a href="/wiki/Jesus" title="Jesus">Jesus</a>' prediction that "I tell you the <a href="/wiki/Truth" title="Truth">truth</a>, some who are standing here will not taste <a href="/wiki/Death" title="Death">death</a> before they see that the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_God" class="mw-redirect" title="Kingdom of God">kingdom of God</a> has come with power".<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The chapter then recounts the <a href="/wiki/Transfiguration_of_Jesus" title="Transfiguration of Jesus">transfiguration of Jesus</a>, a healing <a href="/wiki/Miracles_of_Jesus" title="Miracles of Jesus">miracle</a>, and Jesus' teaching about the return of <a href="/wiki/Elijah" title="Elijah">Elijah</a>, <a href="/wiki/Humility" title="Humility">humility</a> and <a href="/wiki/Temptation" title="Temptation">temptation</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Text">Text</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mark_9&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Text"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The original text was written in <a href="/wiki/Koine_Greek" title="Koine Greek">Koine Greek</a>. <a href="/wiki/Chapters_and_verses_of_the_Bible" title="Chapters and verses of the Bible">This chapter is divided into</a> 50 verses (49 verses in the <a href="/wiki/Vulgate" title="Vulgate">Vulgate</a> and its <a href="/wiki/Douai-Rheims_Bible" class="mw-redirect" title="Douai-Rheims Bible">Douai-Rheims</a> translation).<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Textual_witnesses">Textual witnesses</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mark_9&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Textual witnesses"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter are: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Codex_Vaticanus" title="Codex Vaticanus">Codex Vaticanus</a> (325-350; complete)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Codex_Sinaiticus" title="Codex Sinaiticus">Codex Sinaiticus</a> (330-360; complete)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Codex_Bezae" title="Codex Bezae">Codex Bezae</a> (~400; complete)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Codex_Alexandrinus" title="Codex Alexandrinus">Codex Alexandrinus</a> (400-440; complete)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Codex_Ephraemi_Rescriptus" title="Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus">Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus</a> (~450; complete)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Locations">Locations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mark_9&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Locations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The events recorded in this chapter take place on "a high mountain" (traditionally understood to be <a href="/wiki/Mount_Tabor" title="Mount Tabor">Mount Tabor</a>), in a nearby town, around Galilee and back in <a href="/wiki/Capernaum" title="Capernaum">Capernaum</a>. From Mount Tabor to Capernaum is about 41 kilometres (25 miles) along modern <a href="/wiki/Highway_65_(Israel)" title="Highway 65 (Israel)">Highway 65</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Verse_1">Verse 1</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mark_9&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Verse 1"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><i>There are some standing here who will not taste death until they see that the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_God" class="mw-redirect" title="Kingdom of God">kingdom of God</a> has come with</i> (or<i> in) power.</i><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <p><a href="/wiki/Church_of_England" title="Church of England">Anglican</a> biblical scholar <a href="/wiki/Edward_Plumptre" title="Edward Plumptre">Edward Plumptre</a> argues that this verse should be read with the final section of <a href="/wiki/Mark_8" title="Mark 8">Mark 8</a> 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.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This verse is numbered as <b>Mark 8:39</b> in the Vulgate and its Douai-Rheims translation, and Irish commentator <a href="/wiki/John_McEvilly" title="John McEvilly">John Macevilly</a> notes that "the Vulgate arrangement ... is preferable" and matches the break between <a href="/wiki/Matthew_16" title="Matthew 16">Matthew 16</a> and <a href="/wiki/Matthew_17" title="Matthew 17">17</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-mcev_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mcev-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Christopher_M._Tuckett" title="Christopher M. Tuckett">Christopher Tuckett</a> notes that this verse has been "much debated",<sup id="cite_ref-tuckett_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tuckett-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and what exactly the kingdom of <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a> refers to has been long discussed. It immediately follows Jesus' statement of "... when he comes in his Father's glory with the holy <a href="/wiki/Angels" class="mw-redirect" title="Angels">angels</a>" (<a href="/wiki/Mark_8" title="Mark 8">Mark</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=48&chapter=8&version=31">8:38</a>) in the preceding chapter. This could simply refer to the subsequently-reported Transfiguration.<sup id="cite_ref-mcev_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mcev-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Others have interpreted it as Jesus referring to his <a href="/wiki/Resurrection_of_Jesus" title="Resurrection of Jesus">resurrection</a> and/or the coming of <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christianity</a>. It is also recorded in <a href="/wiki/Gospel_of_Matthew" title="Gospel of Matthew">Matthew</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=47&chapter=16&version=31">16:28</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gospel_of_Luke" title="Gospel of Luke">Luke</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=49&chapter=9&version=31">9:27</a>. Matthew adds the statement that "... then he will reward each person according to what he has done" between the two. Tuckett notes that the statement is an "unfulfilled <a href="/wiki/Prophecy" title="Prophecy">prophecy</a>", and on this basis many writers "have seen here a genuine saying of Jesus".<sup id="cite_ref-tuckett_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tuckett-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="The_Transfiguration">The Transfiguration</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mark_9&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: The Transfiguration"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Transfigurationraffaelo.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Transfigurationraffaelo.jpg/300px-Transfigurationraffaelo.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="272" 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.hidden-content{text-align:left}@media all and (max-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .hidden-begin{width:auto!important;clear:none!important;float:none!important}}</style><table class="sidebar nomobile nowraplinks" style="width:auto"><tbody><tr><th class="sidebar-title" style="background:#ccccff;font-size:110%"><a href="/wiki/Gospel_of_Mark" title="Gospel of Mark">Gospel of Mark</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content" style="text-align:left;"> <div class="hidden-begin mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style=""><div class="hidden-title skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="">Chapters</div><div class="hidden-content mw-collapsible-content" style=""> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mark_1" title="Mark 1">Mark 1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_2" title="Mark 2">Mark 2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_3" title="Mark 3">Mark 3</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_4" title="Mark 4">Mark 4</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_5" title="Mark 5">Mark 5</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_6" title="Mark 6">Mark 6</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_7" title="Mark 7">Mark 7</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_8" title="Mark 8">Mark 8</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Mark 9</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_10" title="Mark 10">Mark 10</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_11" title="Mark 11">Mark 11</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_12" title="Mark 12">Mark 12</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_13" title="Mark 13">Mark 13</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_14" title="Mark 14">Mark 14</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_15" title="Mark 15">Mark 15</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_16" title="Mark 16">Mark 16</a></li></ul> </div></div></td> </tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Transfiguration_of_Jesus" title="Transfiguration of Jesus">Transfiguration of Jesus</a></div> <p>Six days pass from Jesus' previous teaching, and then Jesus takes <a href="/wiki/Saint_Peter" title="Saint Peter">Peter</a> and the brothers <a href="/wiki/Saint_James_the_Great" class="mw-redirect" title="Saint James the Great">James</a> and <a href="/wiki/John_the_Apostle" title="John the Apostle">John</a> up an unnamed high mountain, which many came to believe was <a href="/wiki/Mount_Tabor" title="Mount Tabor">Mount Tabor</a>. Suddenly, Jesus' clothes become dazzingly white,<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "... whiter than anyone in the world could <a href="/wiki/Bleach" title="Bleach">bleach</a> them",<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Elijah" title="Elijah">Elijah</a> and <a href="/wiki/Moses" title="Moses">Moses</a> appear. The disciples are stunned: for the first time, Mark uses the term <a href="/wiki/Rabbi" title="Rabbi">Rabbi</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and they ask what they should do and offer to put up shelters or 'tabernacles' for the assembled trio. A <a href="/wiki/Cloud" title="Cloud">cloud</a> overshadows them and a voice comes from the cloud saying "This is my Son, whom I love. Listen to him!" (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark%209:7;&version=31;">7</a>) which is what Jesus heard the "voice from heaven" say when he was <a href="/wiki/Baptism_of_Jesus" title="Baptism of Jesus">baptised by John the Baptist</a> in <a href="/wiki/Mark_1" title="Mark 1">Mark 1</a> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=Mark%201:11&version=nrsv">Mark 1:11</a>) but now Mark has Peter, James, and John as witnesses to this. Elijah and Moses disappear and they head down the mountain. </p><p>On the way down the mountain, Jesus tells them to keep what had happened to themselves until the <a href="/wiki/Son_of_Man" class="mw-redirect" title="Son of Man">Son of Man</a> has risen from the dead. They do not ask him to clarify this but they question among themselves what this "rising from the dead" <sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> might mean. For Tuckett, the disciples' discussion "seems to imply that they do not understand what resurrection in general means. This seems incredible in historical terms: <a href="/wiki/General_resurrection" class="mw-redirect" title="General resurrection">resurrection</a> was a well-known idea in [the] <a href="/wiki/Judaism" title="Judaism">Judaism</a> 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.<sup id="cite_ref-tuckett_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tuckett-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In possibly a separate discussion,<sup id="cite_ref-tuckett_7-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tuckett-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Peter, James and John then ask Jesus about the coming of Elijah (Elias), and he says: </p> <dl><dd><i>... 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.</i> (<a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(King_James)/Mark#9:12" class="extiw" title="s:Bible (King James)/Mark">Mark 9:12-13</a>) KJV</dd></dl> <p>It was commonly believed that Elijah would reappear before the coming of the <a href="/wiki/Messiah" title="Messiah">Messiah</a>, as predicted in <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Malachi" title="Book of Malachi">Malachi</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=46&chapter=4&version=31">4</a>. Matthew <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=47&chapter=17&version=31">17:13</a> states that the three of them believed Jesus was comparing Elijah to <a href="/wiki/John_the_Baptist" title="John the Baptist">John the Baptist</a>. The imprisonment and death of John the Baptist (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark+6:17–29&version=nkjv">Mark 6:17–29</a>) may be compared to the persecution of Elijah by <a href="/wiki/Jezebel" title="Jezebel">Jezebel</a> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Kings+19:2–3&version=nkjv">1 Kings 19:2–3</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-nicoll_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nicoll-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Moses can be seen as a representative of the <a href="/wiki/613_Commandments" class="mw-redirect" title="613 Commandments">law</a> and Elijah a representative of the <a href="/wiki/Neviim" class="mw-redirect" title="Neviim">prophets</a>. </p><p>This whole passage has echoes of <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Exodus" title="Book of Exodus">Exodus</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=2&chapter=24&version=31">24</a>, where clouds covered <a href="/wiki/Mount_Sinai" title="Mount Sinai">Mount Sinai</a> for six days before Moses went up to receive the <a href="/wiki/Ten_Commandments" title="Ten Commandments">Ten Commandments</a>. </p><p>The original <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek" title="Ancient Greek">Greek</a> uses the word <i>metamorphothe</i> which was translated into <a href="/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a> as <i>Trans Figura</i>, the changing of appearance or of the body itself. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="The_Possessed_Boy">The Possessed Boy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mark_9&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: The Possessed Boy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Exorcising_a_boy_possessed_by_a_demon" title="Exorcising a boy possessed by a demon">Exorcising a boy possessed by a demon</a></div> <p>They arrive back and find the rest of the <a href="/wiki/Disciple_(Christianity)" title="Disciple (Christianity)">disciples</a> arguing with several <a href="/wiki/Scribe#Judaism" title="Scribe">teachers of the law</a> surrounded by a crowd. As Jesus returns, the crowd are "amazed" at him: the <a href="/wiki/New_Revised_Standard_Version" title="New Revised Standard Version">New Revised Standard Version</a> translates as "they were ... overcome with <a href="/wiki/Awe" title="Awe">awe</a>",<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> suggesting that his appearance "still retained traces of His transfiguration-glory".<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>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 <a href="/wiki/Epilepsy" title="Epilepsy">epilepsy</a>, 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 <i>if</i> he can, to which Jesus replies <i>"Everything is possible for him who believes</i>", and the man says "I believe. Help my unbelief!" (verse 24, only in Mark's account). </p><p>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 <a href="/wiki/Prayer" title="Prayer">prayer</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fasting" title="Fasting">fasting</a>" (verse 29). Some early manuscripts and modern versions omit the reference to fasting.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Predictions_about_the_crucifixion">Predictions about the crucifixion</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mark_9&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Predictions about the crucifixion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Jesus tells his entire group again that the <a href="/wiki/Son_of_Man" class="mw-redirect" title="Son of Man">Son of Man</a> will be betrayed into the hands of men, killed, and after three days he will <a href="/wiki/Resurrection_of_Jesus" title="Resurrection of Jesus">rise again</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This is the second <a href="/wiki/Jesus_predicts_his_death" title="Jesus predicts his death">prediction</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Passion_(Christianity)" class="mw-redirect" title="Passion (Christianity)">Passion</a> in Mark's Gospel, although in the first prediction there is no reference to <a href="/wiki/Jesus_predicts_his_betrayal" title="Jesus predicts his betrayal">betrayal</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-nicoll_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nicoll-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Theologian <a href="/wiki/Marvin_Vincent" title="Marvin Vincent">Marvin Vincent</a> notes that the Greek reads "ἐδίδασκεν" (<i>edidasken</i>), and that the <a href="/wiki/Revised_Version" title="Revised Version">Revised Version</a> would have done better to give the force of the <a href="/wiki/Imperfect_tense" class="mw-redirect" title="Imperfect tense">imperfect</a> here: <i>He was teaching</i>. 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)".<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Jesus' disciples still do not understand what he means but they are <a href="/wiki/Fear" title="Fear">afraid</a> to ask him to clarify himself. <a href="/wiki/William_Robertson_Nicoll" title="William Robertson Nicoll">William Robertson Nicoll</a> 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 <i>why</i>".<sup id="cite_ref-nicoll_14-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nicoll-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Skepticism" title="Skepticism">Skeptics</a> dismiss these predictions as not actually made by the real Jesus but regard them as an example of <a href="/wiki/Vaticinium_ex_eventu" title="Vaticinium ex eventu">vaticinium ex eventu</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2017)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Scholars such as <a href="/wiki/Raymond_E._Brown" title="Raymond E. Brown">Raymond E. Brown</a> believe, however, that "the difficulty in dismissing all these predictions as totally post-Jesus creations is exemplified in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark%209:31;&version=31;">9:31</a> where many scholars recognize <a href="/wiki/Semitic_languages" title="Semitic languages">Semitic</a> features and old tradition." (140) </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Teaching_in_Capernaum">Teaching in Capernaum</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mark_9&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Teaching in Capernaum"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>They go back to <a href="/wiki/Capernaum" title="Capernaum">Capernaum</a> and in the house, Jesus asks what the disciples were discussing or arguing about on the road. They <a href="/wiki/Silence" title="Silence">do not answer</a>, 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 <sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Jesus already knows what they had been talking about, however, and he summons the twelve, sits down with them (καθίσας, <i>kathisas</i>, indicating that Jesus takes His seat in a deliberate attempt to school the disciples) <sup id="cite_ref-nicoll_14-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nicoll-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and instructs them: </p> <dl><dd><i>If anyone wants to be first, he must be the very last, and the servant of all</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <p>He takes a child (verse 36, but verse 35 in the Vulgate arrangement) in his arms and says <a href="/wiki/The_Little_Children" class="mw-redirect" title="The Little Children">whoever welcomes children welcomes him and therefore God</a>. </p><p>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." (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.biblica.com/bible/?osis=niv:Mark%209:40">9:40</a>). In <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.biblica.com/bible/?osis=niv:Matthew%2012:30">Matthew 12:30</a> and <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.biblica.com/bible/?osis=niv:Luke%2011:23">Luke 11:23</a> Jesus says: "He who is not with Me is against Me"; see also <a href="/wiki/You%27re_either_with_us,_or_against_us" class="mw-redirect" title="You're either with us, or against us">You're either with us, or against us</a>. 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. </p><p>He then gives one of the most forceful condemnations of <a href="/wiki/Sin" title="Sin">sin</a> in the Bible (see <a href="/wiki/Stumbling_block" title="Stumbling block">Stumbling block</a>): </p> <dl><dd><i>And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a <a href="/wiki/Millstone" title="Millstone">millstone</a> 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 <a href="/wiki/Hell" title="Hell">hell</a>, 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 <a href="/wiki/Peace" title="Peace">peace</a> one with another.</i> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=mark%209:42-50;&version=9;">42-50</a>) KJV</dd></dl> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Hinnom_Valley.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Hinnom_Valley.JPG/250px-Hinnom_Valley.JPG" decoding="async" width="250" height="188" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Hinnom_Valley.JPG/375px-Hinnom_Valley.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Hinnom_Valley.JPG/500px-Hinnom_Valley.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1536" /></a><figcaption>The Hinnom Valley in <a href="/wiki/Jerusalem_in_Christianity" title="Jerusalem in Christianity">Jerusalem</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The text quotes the <a href="/wiki/Isaiah_66:24" class="mw-redirect" title="Isaiah 66:24">final verse</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Isaiah" title="Book of Isaiah">Book of Isaiah</a>: </p> <dl><dd><i>"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"</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Pulpit_Commentary" title="Pulpit Commentary">Pulpit Commentary</a> observes that the bodies cast into hell "could not be at the same time burnt with fire and eaten by worms".<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>It is unclear whether Jesus's extreme suggestion to amputate an important body part is meant to be taken literally or not.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> De Bruin has argued that Jesus's command is meant to be literal, and it is a method of dealing with <a href="/wiki/Demons" class="mw-redirect" title="Demons">demons</a> that have gained a foothold in a person.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The original manuscripts use the term "τὴν γέενναν" (<i>tēn geennan</i>) <i><a href="/wiki/Gehenna" title="Gehenna">Gehenna</a></i> for Hell. Gehenna was a trash dump next to <a href="/wiki/Jerusalem" title="Jerusalem">Jerusalem</a> 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 <a href="/wiki/Human_sacrifice" title="Human sacrifice">sacrifice live children</a> to <a href="/wiki/Paganism" title="Paganism">Pagan</a> <a href="/wiki/Deity" title="Deity">Gods</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2015)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>What exactly the "salt" Jesus was referring to was is unclear. Jesus relates it to <a href="/wiki/Fire" title="Fire">fire</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Goodness_and_value_theory" class="mw-redirect" title="Goodness and value theory">good</a>, and peace.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2015)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Salt was seen as a thing of purity, but salt also has destructive properties and was used as a preservative.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2015)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> "Salt" might simply refer to his teaching. It also might be seen as an interlocking double <a href="/wiki/Metaphor" title="Metaphor">metaphor</a> relating the salt required in <a href="/wiki/Sacrifice" title="Sacrifice">sacrifices</a> to God found in <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Leviticus" title="Book of Leviticus">Leviticus</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=3&chapter=2&version=31">2:11,13</a> to the "salt" of the sacrifice of Christ and to the "salt" required to be in followers of Jesus as metaphorical sacrifices as in <a href="/wiki/Epistle_to_the_Romans" title="Epistle to the Romans">Romans</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=52&chapter=12&version=31">12</a> and also relating the salt of the <a href="/wiki/Old_Covenant" class="mw-redirect" title="Old Covenant">Old Covenant</a> from <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Leviticus" title="Book of Leviticus">Leviticus</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=3&chapter=2&version=31">2:11,13</a> to the "salt" of the <a href="/wiki/New_Covenant_(theology)" class="mw-redirect" title="New Covenant (theology)">new</a> or renewed covenant. See <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.davegentile.com/synoptics/Mark.html">Salt in Mark</a> and also <a href="/wiki/Salt_and_Light" class="mw-redirect" title="Salt and Light">Salt and Light</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2015)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Connections_across_the_New_Testament">Connections across the New Testament</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mark_9&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Connections across the New Testament"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Luke <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=49&chapter=9&version=31">9</a> has almost the entire chapter of Mark 9 contained verbatim with the notable exception of the speech about sin which is partly contained in <a href="/wiki/Luke_17" title="Luke 17">Luke 17</a>. Matthew has the Transfiguration and the possessed boy followed by a slightly altered and expanded scene in Capernaum in chapters <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=47&chapter=17&version=31">17</a> and <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=47&chapter=18&version=31">18</a>. <a href="/wiki/Gospel_of_John" title="Gospel of John">John</a> 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 <a href="/wiki/Apostle_John" class="mw-redirect" title="Apostle John">Apostle John</a>, or John knew the <a href="/wiki/Synoptic_gospels" class="mw-redirect" title="Synoptic gospels">synoptics</a> were circulating and wrote his gospel to fill in details he thought lacking in them.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2015)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/2_Peter" class="mw-redirect" title="2 Peter">The second letter of Peter</a> has a relationship with the Gospel tradition, mainly in the <a href="/wiki/Transfiguration_of_Jesus" title="Transfiguration of Jesus">Transfiguration of Jesus</a>, <i>1:4</i> with Mark 9:1; <i>1:11</i> with Mark 9:1; <i>1:16,18</i> with Mark 9:2-10; <i>1:17</i> with Matthew 17:5; <i>1:19</i> with Mark 9:4.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mark_9&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output 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class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The verb ἐγένετο (<i>egeneto</i>) is singular although τὰ ἱμάτια (<i>ta himatia</i>) is plural.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Heinrich_Meyer" class="mw-redirect" title="Heinrich Meyer">Heinrich Meyer</a> observes that some critical editors have used the plural verb, ἐγένοντο (<i>egenonto</i>).<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Cf. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://biblehub.com/beza/mark/9.htm">Mark 9:3 in Codex Bezae</a></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mark_9&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626" /><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.biblica.com/bible/?osis=niv:Mark%209:1">Mark 9:1</a>: <a href="/wiki/New_International_Version" title="New International Version">New International Version</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=mark+9&version=VULGATE;DRA">Mark 9: Vulgate and Douai-Rheims versions</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Source: <a href="/wiki/Google_Maps" title="Google Maps">Google Maps</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=Mark%209:1&version=nrsv">Mark 9:1</a>: <a href="/wiki/NRSV" class="mw-redirect" title="NRSV">NRSV</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Plumptre, E., <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://biblehub.com/commentaries/ellicott/mark/9.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for Modern Readers</a> on Mark 9, accessed 13 June 2017</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-mcev-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-mcev_6-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-mcev_6-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">MacEvilly, J. (1898), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ecatholic2000.com/macevilly2/untitled-46.shtml#_Toc385606560">An Exposition Of The Gospels by The Most Rev. John Macevilly D.D.</a>, Mark 8, accessed on 13 March 2023</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-tuckett-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-tuckett_7-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-tuckett_7-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-tuckett_7-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-tuckett_7-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Tuckett, C. M., <i>57. Mark</i> in Barton, J. and Muddiman, J. (2001), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://b-ok.org/dl/946961/8f5f43">The Oxford Bible Commentary</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20171122193211/http://b-ok.org/dl/946961/8f5f43">Archived</a> 2017-11-22 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, p. 904</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Bible Hub, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://biblehub.com/text/mark/9-3.htm">Text analysis: Mark 9:3</a>, accessed on 5 December 2024</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Meyer, H. (1880), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://biblehub.com/commentaries/meyer/mark/9.htm">Meyer's NT Commentary on Mark 9</a>, translated from the German sixth edition, accessed on 5 December 2024</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.biblica.com/bible/?osis=niv:Mark%209:3">Mark 9:3</a>: NIV</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://biblehub.com/greek/4461.htm">Strong's G4461</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark+9:10&version=ehv">Mark 9:10</a>: <a href="/wiki/Evangelical_Heritage_Version" title="Evangelical Heritage Version">Evangelical Heritage Version</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-nicoll-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-nicoll_14-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-nicoll_14-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-nicoll_14-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-nicoll_14-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Nicoll, W. R., <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://biblehub.com/commentaries/egt/mark/9.htm">Expositor's Greek Testament on Mark 9</a>, accessed 27 November 2017</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=Mark%209:15&version=nrsv">Mark 9:15</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://biblehub.com/commentaries/jfb/mark/9.htm">Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary on Mark 9</a>, accessed 28 November 2017</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">See <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark+9:15&version=nasb">Mark 9:15</a> and <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark+9:15&version=ncb">Mark 9:15</a> in the <a href="/wiki/New_American_Standard_Bible" title="New American Standard Bible">New American Standard Bible</a> and New Catholic Bible</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark+9:31&version=nkjv">Mark 9:31</a>; cf. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark+8:31–32&version=nkjv">Mark 8:31–32</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Vincent, M., <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://biblehub.com/commentaries/vws/mark/9.htm">Vincent's Word Studies on Mark 9</a>, accessed 29 November 2017</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Maclear, G. F., <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://biblehub.com/commentaries/cambridge/mark/9.htm">Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges</a> on Mark 9, accessed 16 June 2017</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+18:1&version=nkjv">Matthew 18:1</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.biblica.com/bible/?osis=niv:Mark%209:35">Mark 9:35</a>: NIV</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.biblica.com/bible/?osis=niv:Isaiah%2066:24">Isaiah 66:24</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://biblehub.com/commentaries/pulpit/isaiah/66.htm">Pulpit Commentary on Isaiah 66</a>, accessed 30 November 2017</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">S.R. Llewelyn and W. Robinson, “‘If Your Hand Causes You to Stumble, Cut It Off’: Questions over the Figurative Nature of Mark 9:43–47 and Its Synoptic Parallels,” <i>Novum Testamentum</i> 63 (2021) 425–51</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-26">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">de Bruin, T. (2025). Excision as Exorcism: Some Possible Demonic Roots for Jesus’s Sayings in Mark 9:43–48. Novum Testamentum, 67(1), 1-20. <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://doi.org/10.1163/15685365-bja10089">https://doi.org/10.1163/15685365-bja10089</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-27">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Longenecker, Richard. N. (2005). Contours of Christology in the New Testament, pages 280-281</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mark_9&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #aaa;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em;background-color:var(--background-color-interactive-subtle,#f8f9fa);display:flow-root}.mw-parser-output .side-box-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{padding:0.25em 0.9em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-image{padding:2px 0 2px 0.9em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-imageright{padding:2px 0.9em 2px 0;text-align:center}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .side-box-flex{display:flex;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{flex:1;min-width:0}}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .side-box{width:238px}.mw-parser-output .side-box-right{clear:right;float:right;margin-left:1em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-left{margin-right:1em}}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1237033735">@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox{display:none!important}}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox img[src*="Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg"]{background-color:white}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox img[src*="Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg"]{background-color:white}}</style><div class="side-box side-box-right plainlinks sistersitebox"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-image"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Commons-logo.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/40px-Commons-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="30" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/60px-Commons-logo.svg.png 1.5x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="1376" /></a></span></div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist">Wikimedia Commons has media related to <span style="font-weight: bold; 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Darby, American Standard Version, Bible in Basic English)</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=48&chapter=9">Multiple bible versions at <i>Bible Gateway</i></a> (NKJV, NIV, NRSV etc.)</li></ul> <table class="wikitable" style="margin:0.5em auto; font-size:95%; clear: both;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;">Preceded by<br /><b><a href="/wiki/Mark_8" title="Mark 8">Mark 8</a></b> </td> <td style="text-align: center;"><b>Chapters of the Bible<br /><a href="/wiki/Gospel_of_Mark" title="Gospel of Mark">Gospel of Mark</a></b> </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;">Succeeded by<br /><b><a href="/wiki/Mark_10" title="Mark 10">Mark 10</a></b> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="navbox-styles"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output 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style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mark_1" title="Mark 1">Mark 1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_2" title="Mark 2">2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_3" title="Mark 3">3</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_4" title="Mark 4">4</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_5" title="Mark 5">5</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_6" title="Mark 6">6</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_7" title="Mark 7">7</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_8" title="Mark 8">8</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">9</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_10" title="Mark 10">10</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_11" title="Mark 11">11</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_12" title="Mark 12">12</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_13" title="Mark 13">13</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_14" title="Mark 14">14</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_15" title="Mark 15">15</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_16" title="Mark 16">16</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Events</th><td 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Jesus">Transfiguration</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Commandment" title="Great Commandment">Great Commandment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Olivet_Discourse" title="Olivet Discourse">Olivet Discourse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anointing_of_Jesus" title="Anointing of Jesus">Anointing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Passion_of_Jesus" title="Passion of Jesus">Passion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Last_Supper" title="Last Supper">Last Supper</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pilate%27s_court" title="Pilate's court">Pilate's court</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crucifixion_of_Jesus" title="Crucifixion of Jesus">Crucifixion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burial_of_Jesus" title="Burial of Jesus">Entombment/Burial</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Empty_tomb" title="Empty tomb">Empty tomb</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Resurrection_of_Jesus" title="Resurrection of Jesus">Resurrection</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Phrases</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Naked_fugitive" title="Naked fugitive">Naked fugitive</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sayings_of_Jesus_on_the_cross" title="Sayings of Jesus on the cross">Sayings of Jesus on the cross</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">People</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Andrew_the_Apostle" title="Andrew the Apostle">Andrew</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caiaphas" title="Caiaphas">Caiaphas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herod_Antipas" title="Herod Antipas">Herod Antipas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jesus" title="Jesus">Jesus Christ</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_the_Baptist" title="John the Baptist">John the Baptist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_of_Arimathea" title="Joseph of Arimathea">Joseph of Arimathea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Judas_Iscariot" title="Judas Iscariot">Judas Iscariot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary,_mother_of_James" title="Mary, mother of James">Mary, mother of James</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary,_mother_of_Jesus" title="Mary, mother of Jesus">Mary, mother of Jesus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_Magdalene" title="Mary Magdalene">Mary Magdalene</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_of_Bethany" title="Mary of Bethany">Mary, sister of Martha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philip_the_Apostle" title="Philip the Apostle">Philip</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pontius_Pilate" title="Pontius Pilate">Pontius Pilate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rufus_(biblical_figure)" title="Rufus (biblical figure)">Rufus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Salome_(disciple)" title="Salome (disciple)">Salome</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simon_of_Cyrene" title="Simon of Cyrene">Simon of Cyrene</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint_Peter" title="Saint Peter">Simon Peter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_the_Apostle" title="Thomas the Apostle">Thomas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zebedee" title="Zebedee">Zebedee</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>Groups</dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/Pharisees" title="Pharisees">Pharisees</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Sadducees" title="Sadducees">Sadducees</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Samaritans" title="Samaritans">Samaritans</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Sanhedrin" title="Sanhedrin">Sanhedrin</a></dd></dl> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Places</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bethany" title="Bethany">Bethany</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bethsaida" title="Bethsaida">Bethsaida</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Capernaum" title="Capernaum">Capernaum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dalmanutha" title="Dalmanutha">Dalmanutha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Galilee" title="Galilee">Galilee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jerusalem" title="Jerusalem">Jerusalem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jordan_River" title="Jordan River">Jordan River</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Judea" title="Judea">Judea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nazareth" title="Nazareth">Nazareth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samaria" title="Samaria">Samaria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sea_of_Galilee" title="Sea of Galilee">Sea of Galilee</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mark_the_Evangelist" title="Mark the Evangelist">Mark the Evangelist</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Mark" title="John Mark">John Mark</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Textual_variants_in_the_Gospel_of_Mark" title="Textual variants in the Gospel of Mark">Textual variants</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marcan_priority" title="Marcan priority">Marcan priority</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Two-source_hypothesis" title="Two-source hypothesis">two-source hypothesis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Three-source_hypothesis" title="Three-source hypothesis">three-source hypothesis</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Intertextual_production_of_the_Gospel_of_Mark" title="Intertextual production of the Gospel of Mark">Intertextual production</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Messianic_Secret" title="Messianic Secret">Messianic Secret</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Secret_Gospel_of_Mark" title="Secret Gospel of Mark">Secret Gospel of Mark</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">In music</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/St_Mark_Passion_(attributed_to_Keiser)" title="St Mark Passion (attributed to Keiser)"><i>St Mark Passion</i> (attributed to Keiser)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Mark_Passion,_BWV_247" title="St Mark Passion, BWV 247"><i>St Mark Passion</i>, BWV 247 (J. S. Bach)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/La_Pasi%C3%B3n_seg%C3%BAn_San_Marcos_(Golijov)" title="La Pasión según San Marcos (Golijov)"><i>La Pasión según San Marcos</i> (Golijov)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Mark_Passion_(N._Matthes)" title="St Mark Passion (N. Matthes)"><i>St Mark Passion </i>(N. Matthes)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Manuscripts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Papyrus_45" title="Papyrus 45">Papyrus 45</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Papyrus_84" title="Papyrus 84">84</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Papyrus_88" title="Papyrus 88">88</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Papyrus_137" title="Papyrus 137">137</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fayyum_Fragment" title="Fayyum Fragment">Fayyum Fragment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Minuscule_2427" title="Minuscule 2427">Minuscule 2427 <i>(forgery)</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/7Q5" title="7Q5">7Q5 <i>(disputed)</i></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Sources</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/el:%CE%9A%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%AC_%CE%9C%CE%AC%CF%81%CE%BA%CE%BF%CE%BD" class="extiw" title="wikisource:el:Κατά Μάρκον">Greek Text</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/la:Biblia_Sacra_Vulgata_(Stuttgartensia)/Marcus" class="extiw" title="wikisource:la:Biblia Sacra Vulgata (Stuttgartensia)/Marcus">Latin Vulgate</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(Wycliffe)/Mark" class="extiw" title="wikisource:Bible (Wycliffe)/Mark">Wycliffe Version</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(King_James)/Mark" class="extiw" title="wikisource:Bible (King James)/Mark">King James Version</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(American_Standard)/Mark" class="extiw" title="wikisource:Bible (American Standard)/Mark">American Standard Version</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(World_English)/Mark" class="extiw" title="wikisource:Bible (World English)/Mark">World English Version</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div>    </div><noscript><img src="https://login.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/start?useformat=desktop&type=1x1&usesul3=0" alt="" width="1" height="1" style="border: none; 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