Slide 2:
9 And as they were coming down the mountain, He charged them to tell no one what they had seen, until the Son of man should have risen from the dead.
10 So they kept the matter to themselves, questioning what the rising from the dead meant.
11 And they asked Him “Why do the scribes say that first Elijah must come?”
12 And He said to them, “Elijah does come first to restore all things; and how is it written of the Son of man, that He should suffer many things and be treated with contempt?
13 But I tell you that Elijah has come, and they did to him whatever they pleased, as it is written of him.” The Holy Bible : Revised Standard Version Second Catholic edition (2006), with the ecclesiastical approval of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Thomas Nelson Publishing for Ignatius Press.
Slide 3:
As they were coming down the mountain Jesus tells Peter, James and John not to tell anyone what they had seen.
There are a number of possible reasons that Jesus requested their silence.
1. Who would believe them had they told the story? They would have been dismissed as “religious kooks.” Jesus still had many lessons to teach His disciples and He needed time to do it.
The people were ready to try and make Jesus their new political leader which would have hampered the Father’s plan for Jesus to suffer, die and be resurrected.
Slide 4:
Verse 10 tells us the disciples were, “questioning what the rising from the dead meant.”
The disciples already expected a resurrection but only at the end of time as foretold in the Book of Daniel 12:2
“And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.”
Further, it was prophesied that Elijah would come first.
In verse 12 Jesus makes it clear that Elijah does come (lit. “is coming) before the Messiah and restores (is going to restore) all things before Jesus second coming (Mal. 4:5-6).
Slide 5:
But even though Elijah will come, the Son of Man must now, “suffer many things and be treated with contempt.”
13 But I tell you that Elijah has come, and they did to him whatever they pleased, as it is written of him.”
This is Mark’s way of connecting John the Baptist to Elijah. John the Baptist had prepared the way for Jesus’ arrival.
John had acted as Elijah was expected to act at “end time.”
Herod and Herodias had done “to him whatever they pleased,” when they imprisoned and murdered him.