Mark 9:12 (LSB)

Passage

And He said to them, “Elijah does first come and restore all things. And yet how is it written of the Son of Man that He will suffer many things and be treated with contempt?

Nearby Context

Mark 9:10 And they seized upon that statement, arguing with one another what rising from the dead meant.

Mark 9:11 And they began asking Him, saying, “Why is it that the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”

Mark 9:12 And He said to them, “Elijah does first come and restore all things. And yet how is it written of the Son of Man that He will suffer many things and be treated with contempt?

Mark 9:13 But I say to you that Elijah has indeed come, and they did to him whatever they wished, just as it is written of him.”

Mark 9:14 And when they came back to the disciples, they saw a large crowd around them, and scribes arguing with them.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "all things", "said", "elijah", "does", "first", "come", "restore", and "written". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "all things" and "said", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 11's "And they began asking Him saying Why..." into verse 13's "But I say to you that Elijah...", so "all things" and "said" 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 "all things" and "said" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.