New Revised Standard Version
Then they asked him, “Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”

Contemporary English Version
The disciples asked Jesus, "Don't the teachers of the Law of Moses say that Elijah must come before the Messiah does?"

New American Bible
Then they asked him, “Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they asked him, saying: Why then do the Pharisees and scribes say that Elias must come first?

And they asked him, saying: Why then do the Pharisees and scribes say that Elias must come first?

Mark 9:4 And there appeared to them Elias with Moses: and they were talking with Jesus.

Malachi 3:1 Behold I send my angel, and he shall prepare the way before my face. And presently the Lord, whom you seek, and the angel of the testament, whom you desire, shall come to his temple. Behold, he cometh, saith the Lord of hosts.

Malachi 4:5 Behold, I will send you Elias the prophet, before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.

Matthew 11:14 And if you will receive it, he is Elias that is to come.

Matthew 17:10,11 And his disciples asked him, saying: Why then do the scribes say that Elias must come first? . . .