Mark 9:10 (ASV)

Passage

And they kept the saying, questioning among themselves what the rising again from the dead should mean.

Nearby Context

Mark 9:8 And suddenly looking round about, they saw no one any more, save Jesus only with themselves.

Mark 9:9 And as they were coming down from the mountain, he charged them that they should tell no man what things they had seen, save when the Son of man should have risen again from the dead.

Mark 9:10 And they kept the saying, questioning among themselves what the rising again from the dead should mean.

Mark 9:11 And they asked him, saying, [How is it] that the scribes say that Elijah must first come?

Mark 9:12 And he said unto them, Elijah indeed cometh first, and restoreth all things: and how is it written of the Son of man, that he should suffer many things and be set at nought?

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "kept", "saying", "questioning", "themselves", "rising", "again", "dead", and "should". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "kept" and "saying", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 9's "And as they were coming down from..." into verse 11's "And they asked him saying How is...", so "kept" and "saying" belong inside that flow. In Mark context, the local focus is Christ, faith, and discipleship.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "kept" and "saying" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.