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Mark 9:12 KJV
Mark · chapter 9 · verse 12
And he answered and told them, 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.Mark 9:12 · King James Version
Mark 9:12 in context
10And they kept that saying with themselves, questioning one with another what the rising from the dead should mean.
11And they asked him, saying, Why say the scribes that Elias must first come?
12And he answered and told them, 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.
13But I say unto you, That Elias is indeed come, and they have done unto him whatsoever they listed, as it is written of him.
14And when he came to his disciples, he saw a great multitude about them, and the scribes questioning with them.
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Key words (Strong's)
- restorethapokathistēmito restore to its former state, to be in its former stateG600 →
- answeredapokrinomaito give an answer to a question proposed, to answer, to begin to speak, but always where…G611 →
- writtengraphōto write, with reference to the form of the letters, to delineate letters on a tablet…G1125 →
- verilymentruly, certainly, surely, indeedG3303 →
- cometherchomaito come, of persons, to come from one place to another, and used both of persons arriving…G2064 →
- sufferpaschōto be affected or have been affected, to feel, have a sensible experience, to undergo, in…G3958 →
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Here is, I. A prediction of Christ's kingdom now near approaching, Mar 9:1. That which is foretold, is, 1. That the kingdom of God would come, and would come so as to be seen: the kingdom of the Messiah shall be set up in the world by the utter destruction of the Jewish polity, which stood in the way of it;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-13