Mark 9

1He said to them, “Most certainly I tell you, there are some standing here who will in no way taste death until they see God’s Kingdom come with power.”Cross-references: Matt 16:28 · Matt 24:30 · Matt 25:31 · Mark 13:26 · Mark 13:30 · Luke 2:26 · +7 more

2After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John, and brought them up onto a high mountain privately by themselves, and he was changed into another form in front of them.Cross-references: Ex 24:13 · Ex 34:29 · 1Ki 18:33 · 1Ki 18:42 · Isa 33:17 · Isa 53:2 · +17 more

3His clothing became glistening, exceedingly white, like snow, such as no launderer on earth can whiten them.Cross-references: Ps 51:7 · Ps 68:14 · Ps 104:1 · Isa 1:18 · Dan 7:9 · Mal 3:2 · +5 more

4Elijah and Moses appeared to them, and they were talking with Jesus.Cross-references: Deut 34:5 · 2Ki 2:11 · Matt 11:13 · Matt 17:3 · Luke 9:19 · Luke 9:30 · +7 more

5Peter answered Jesus, “Rabbi, it is good for us to be here. Let’s make three tents: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”Cross-references: Ex 33:17 · Ps 62:2 · Ps 84:10 · Matt 23:7 · John 14:8 · John 14:21 · +3 more

6For he didn’t know what to say, for they were very afraid.Cross-references: Dan 10:15 · Mark 16:5 · Rev 1:17

7A cloud came, overshadowing them, and a voice came out of the cloud, “This is my beloved Son. Listen to him.”Cross-references: Ex 23:21 · Ex 24:16 · Ex 40:34 · Deut 18:15 · 1Ki 8:10 · Ps 2:7 · +31 more

8Suddenly looking around, they saw no one with them any more, except Jesus only.Cross-references: Luke 9:36 · Luke 24:31 · Acts 8:39 · Acts 10:16

9As they were coming down from the mountain, he commanded them that they should tell no one what things they had seen, until after the Son of Man had risen from the dead.Cross-references: Matt 8:4 · Matt 12:19 · Matt 12:40 · Matt 16:21 · Matt 17:9 · Matt 27:63 · +5 more

10They kept this saying to themselves, questioning what the “rising from the dead” meant.Cross-references: Gen 37:11 · Matt 16:22 · Mark 9:32 · Luke 2:50 · Luke 18:33 · Luke 24:7 · +7 more

11They asked him, saying, “Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”Cross-references: Mal 3:1 · Mal 4:5 · Matt 11:14 · Matt 17:10 · Mark 9:4

12He said to them, “Elijah indeed comes first, and restores all things. How is it written about the Son of Man, that he should suffer many things and be despised?Cross-references: Ps 22:1 · Ps 69:1 · Ps 74:22 · Isa 40:3 · Isa 49:7 · Isa 50:6 · +19 more

13But I tell you that Elijah has come, and they have also done to him whatever they wanted to, even as it is written about him.”Cross-references: Matt 11:14 · Matt 14:3 · Matt 17:12 · Mark 6:14 · Luke 1:17 · Luke 3:19 · +1 more

14Coming to the disciples, he saw a great multitude around them, and scribes questioning them.Cross-references: Matt 17:14 · Mark 2:6 · Mark 11:28 · Mark 12:14 · Luke 9:37 · Luke 11:53 · +1 more

15Immediately all the multitude, when they saw him, were greatly amazed, and running to him, greeted him.Cross-references: Ex 34:30 · Mark 9:2

16He asked the scribes, “What are you asking them?”Cross-references: Mark 8:11 · Luke 5:30

17One of the multitude answered, “Teacher, I brought to you my son, who has a mute spirit;Cross-references: Matt 12:22 · Matt 17:15 · Mark 5:23 · Mark 7:26 · Mark 9:25 · Mark 10:13 · +3 more

18and wherever it seizes him, it throws him down; and he foams at the mouth, grinds his teeth, and becomes rigid. I asked your disciples to cast it out, and they weren’t able.”Cross-references: 2Ki 4:29 · Job 16:9 · Ps 112:10 · Matt 8:12 · Matt 15:22 · Matt 17:16 · +8 more

19He answered him, “Unbelieving generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him to me.”Cross-references: Num 14:11 · Num 14:22 · Num 14:27 · Num 32:13 · Deut 32:20 · Ps 78:6 · +9 more

20They brought him to him, and when he saw him, immediately the spirit convulsed him and he fell on the ground, wallowing and foaming at the mouth.Cross-references: Job 1:10 · Job 2:6 · Mark 1:26 · Mark 5:3 · Mark 9:18 · Mark 9:26 · +5 more

21He asked his father, “How long has it been since this has been happening to him?” He said, “From childhood.Cross-references: Job 5:7 · Job 14:1 · Ps 51:5 · Mark 5:25 · Luke 8:43 · Luke 13:16 · +7 more

22Often it has cast him both into the fire and into the water to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.”Cross-references: Matt 8:2 · Matt 8:8 · Matt 9:28 · Matt 14:31 · Matt 15:22 · Matt 20:34 · +3 more

23Jesus said to him, “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.”Cross-references: 2Chr 20:20 · Matt 17:20 · Matt 21:21 · Mark 11:23 · Luke 17:6 · John 4:48 · +3 more

24Immediately the father of the child cried out with tears, “I believe. Help my unbelief!”Cross-references: 2Sam 16:12 · 2Ki 20:5 · Ps 39:12 · Ps 126:5 · Jer 14:17 · Luke 7:38 · +13 more

25When Jesus saw that a multitude came running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to him, “You mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him, and never enter him again!”Cross-references: Isa 35:5 · Zech 3:2 · Matt 9:32 · Matt 12:22 · Matt 17:18 · Mark 1:25 · +9 more

26After crying out and convulsing him greatly, it came out of him. The boy became like one dead, so much that most of them said, “He is dead.”Cross-references: Ex 5:23 · Mark 1:26 · Mark 9:18 · Mark 9:20 · Rev 12:12

27But Jesus took him by the hand and raised him up; and he arose.Cross-references: Isa 41:13 · Mark 1:31 · Mark 1:41 · Mark 5:41 · Mark 8:23 · Acts 3:7 · +1 more

28When he had come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, “Why couldn’t we cast it out?”Cross-references: Matt 13:10 · Matt 13:36 · Matt 15:15 · Matt 17:19 · Mark 4:10 · Mark 4:34 · +1 more

29He said to them, “This kind can come out by nothing but by prayer and fasting.”Cross-references: 1Ki 17:20 · 2Ki 4:33 · Dan 9:3 · Matt 12:45 · Matt 17:20 · Luke 11:26 · +8 more

30They went out from there and passed through Galilee. He didn’t want anyone to know it,Cross-references: Matt 17:22 · Matt 27:22 · Mark 6:31 · Luke 9:43

31for he was teaching his disciples, and said to them, “The Son of Man is being handed over to the hands of men, and they will kill him; and when he is killed, on the third day he will rise again.”Cross-references: Matt 16:21 · Matt 20:18 · Matt 20:28 · Matt 21:38 · Matt 26:2 · Mark 8:31 · +11 more

32But they didn’t understand the saying, and were afraid to ask him.Cross-references: Mark 7:18 · Mark 8:17 · Mark 8:33 · Mark 9:10 · Mark 16:14 · Luke 2:50 · +6 more

33He came to Capernaum, and when he was in the house he asked them, “What were you arguing among yourselves on the way?”Cross-references: Ps 139:1 · Matt 17:24 · Matt 18:1 · Mark 2:8 · Luke 9:46 · John 2:25 · +3 more

34But they were silent, for they had disputed with one another on the way about who was the greatest.Cross-references: Matt 18:1 · Matt 20:21 · Mark 9:50 · Luke 9:46 · Luke 22:24 · Rom 12:10 · +3 more

35He sat down and called the twelve; and he said to them, “If any man wants to be first, he shall be last of all, and servant of all.”Cross-references: Prov 13:10 · Jer 45:5 · Matt 20:25 · Matt 23:11 · Mark 10:42 · Luke 14:10 · +3 more

36He took a little child and set him in the middle of them. Taking him in his arms, he said to them,Cross-references: Matt 18:2 · Matt 19:14 · Mark 10:16

37“Whoever receives one such little child in my name receives me; and whoever receives me, doesn’t receive me, but him who sent me.”Cross-references: Matt 10:40 · Matt 18:3 · Matt 18:10 · Matt 25:40 · Luke 9:48 · Luke 10:16 · +5 more

38John said to him, “Teacher, we saw someone who doesn’t follow us casting out demons in your name; and we forbade him, because he doesn’t follow us.”Cross-references: Num 11:26 · Luke 9:49 · Luke 11:19

39But Jesus said, “Don’t forbid him, for there is no one who will do a mighty work in my name and be able quickly to speak evil of me.Cross-references: Matt 7:22 · Matt 13:28 · Mark 10:13 · Acts 19:13 · 1Cor 9:27 · 1Cor 12:3 · +2 more

40For whoever is not against us is on our side.Cross-references: Matt 12:30 · Luke 11:23

41For whoever will give you a cup of water to drink in my name because you are Christ’s, most certainly I tell you, he will in no way lose his reward.Cross-references: Matt 10:42 · Matt 25:40 · John 19:25 · Rom 8:9 · Rom 14:15 · 1Cor 3:23 · +4 more

42“Whoever will cause one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if he were thrown into the sea with a millstone hung around his neck.Cross-references: Matt 18:6 · Matt 18:10 · Matt 25:45 · Luke 17:1 · Acts 9:4 · Acts 26:11 · +12 more

43If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having your two hands to go into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire,Cross-references: Deut 13:6 · Matt 3:12 · Matt 5:22 · Matt 5:29 · Matt 15:30 · Matt 18:8 · +11 more

44‘where their worm doesn’t die, and the fire is not quenched.’

45If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life lame, rather than having your two feet to be cast into Gehenna, into the fire that will never be quenched—Cross-references: Matt 5:22 · Matt 18:8 · Mark 9:43

46‘where their worm doesn’t die, and the fire is not quenched.’

47If your eye causes you to stumble, throw it out. It is better for you to enter into God’s Kingdom with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire,Cross-references: Gen 3:6 · Job 31:1 · Ps 119:37 · Matt 5:22 · Matt 5:28 · Matt 10:37 · +5 more

48‘where their worm doesn’t die, and the fire is not quenched.’Cross-references: Isa 66:24 · Matt 25:41 · Mark 9:43

49For everyone will be salted with fire, and every sacrifice will be seasoned with salt.Cross-references: Lev 2:13 · Ezek 43:24

50Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”Cross-references: Job 6:6 · Ps 34:14 · Ps 133:1 · Matt 5:13 · Mark 9:34 · Luke 14:34 · +20 more