Mark 9:12 {11}
Good News Translation
His answer was, "Elijah is indeed coming first in order to get everything ready. Yet why do the Scriptures say that the Son of Man will suffer much and be rejected?

New Revised Standard Version
He said to them, “Elijah is indeed coming first to restore all things. How then is it written about the Son of Man, that he is to go through many sufferings and be treated with contempt?

Contemporary English Version
Jesus answered: Elijah certainly will come to get everything ready. But don't the Scriptures also say that the Son of Man must suffer terribly and be rejected?

New American Bible
He told them, “Elijah will indeed come first and restore all things, yet how is it written regarding the Son of Man that he must suffer greatly and be treated with contempt?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who answering, said to then: Elias, when he shall come first, shall restore all things; and as it is written of the Son of man that he must suffer many things and be despised.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Who answering, said to then: Elias, when he shall come first, shall restore all things; and as it is written of the Son of man that he must suffer many things and be despised.

restoreth.

Mark 1:2-8 As it is written in Isaias the prophet: Behold I send my angel before thy face, who shall prepare the way before thee. . . .

Isaiah 40:3-5 The voice of one crying in the desert: Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the wilderness the paths of our God. . . .

Malachi 4:6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers: lest I come, and strike the earth with anathema.

Matthew 3:1 And in those days cometh John the Baptist preaching in the desert of Judea.

*etc:

Matthew 11:2-18 Now when John had heard in prison the works of Christ: sending two of his disciples he said to him: . . .

Luke 1:16,17,76 And he shall convert many of the children of Israel to the Lord their God. . . .

Luke 3:2-6 Under the high priests Anna and Caiphas: the word of the Lord was made unto John, the son of Zachary, in the desert. . . .

John 1:6-36 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. . . .

John 3:27 John answered and said: A man cannot receive any thing, unless it be given him from heaven.

*etc:

he must.

Psalm 22:1-31 Unto the end, for the morning protection, a psalm for David. [2] O God my God, look upon me: why hast thou forsaken me? Far from my salvation are the words of my sins. . . .

Psalm 69:1 Unto the end, for them that shall be changed; for David. [2] Save me, O God: for the waters are come in even unto my soul.

*etc:

Isaiah 53:1-12 Who a hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? . . .

Daniel 9:24-26 Seventy weeks are shortened upon thy people, and upon thy holy city, that transgression may be finished, and sin may have an end, and iniquity may be abolished; and everlasting justice may be brought; and vision and prophecy may be fulfilled; and the Saint of saints may be anointed. . . .

Zechariah 13:7 Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that cleaveth to me, saith the Lord of hosts: strike the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn my hand to the little ones.

set.

Psalm 22:6,7 But I am a worm, and no man: the reproach of men, and the outcast of the people. . . .

Psalm 69:12 They that sat in the gate spoke against me: and they that drank wine made me their song.

Psalm 74:22 Arise, O God, judge thy own cause: remember thy reproaches with which the foolish man hath reproached thee all the day.

Isaiah 49:7 Thus saith the Lord the redeemer of Israel, his Holy One, to the soul that is despised, to the nation that is abhorred, to the servant of rulers: Kings shall see, and princes shall rise up, and adore for the Lord's sake, because he is faithful, and for the Holy One of Israel, who hath chosen thee.

Isaiah 50:6 I have given my body to the strikers, and my cheeks to them that plucked them: I have not turned away my face from them that rebuked me, and spit upon me.

Isaiah 52:14 As many have been astonished at thee, so shall his visage be inglorious among men, and his form among the sons of men.

Isaiah 53:1-3 Who a hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? . . .

Zechariah 11:13 And the Lord said to me: Cast it to the statuary, a handsome price, that I was prized at by them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and I cast them into the house of the Lord to the statuary.

Luke 23:11,39 And Herod with his army set him at nought and mocked him, putting on him a white garment: and sent him back to Pilate. . . .

Philippians 2:7,8 But emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men, and in habit found as a man. . . .

Context
The Transfiguration
11And they asked him, saying: Why then do the Pharisees and scribes say that Elias must come first? 12Who answering, said to then: Elias, when he shall come first, shall restore all things; and as it is written of the Son of man that he must suffer many things and be despised. 13But I say to you that Elias also is come (and they have done to him whatsoever they would), as it is written of him.…
Cross References
Daniel 9:26
And after sixty-two weeks Christ shall be slain: and the people that shall deny him shall not be his. And a people, with their leader, that shall come, shall destroy the city, and the sanctuary: and the end thereof shall be waste, and after the end of the war the appointed desolation.

Matthew 16:21
From that time Jesus began to shew to his disciples, that he must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the ancients and scribes and chief priests, and be put to death, and the third day rise again.

Matthew 26:24
The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him. But woe to that man by whom the Son of man shall be betrayed. It were better for him, if that man had not been born.

Mark 9:13
But I say to you that Elias also is come (and they have done to him whatsoever they would), as it is written of him.

Mark 9:31
And he taught his disciples and said to them: The Son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of men, and they shall kill him; and after that he is killed, he shall rise again the third day.

Mark 10:33
Saying: Behold we go up to Jerusalem, and the Son of man shall be betrayed to the chief priests and to the scribes and ancients. And they shall condemn him to death and shall deliver him to the Gentiles.

Acts 1:6
They therefore who were come together, asked him, saying: Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom of Israel?

Acts 4:11
This is the stone which was rejected by you the builders, which is become the head of the corner.

Mark 9:11
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