Mark 9 Clementine Vulgate
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1 Et post dies sex assumit Jesus Petrum, et Jacobum, et Joannem, et ducit illos in montem excelsum seorsum solos, et transfiguratus est coram ipsis.
1 He said to them, “Most certainly I tell you, there are some standing here who will in no way taste death until they see God’s Kingdom come with power.”
2 Et vestimenta ejus facta sunt splendentia, et candida nimis velut nix, qualia fullo non potest super terram candida facere.
2 After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John, and brought them up onto a high mountain privately by themselves, and he was changed into another form in front of them.
3 Et apparuit illis Elias cum Moyse: et erant loquentes cum Jesu.
3 His clothing became glistening, exceedingly white, like snow, such as no launderer on earth can whiten them.
4 Et respondens Petrus, ait Jesu: Rabbi, bonum est nos hic esse: et faciamus tria tabernacula, tibi unum, et Moysi unum, et Eliæ unum.
4 Elijah and Moses appeared to them, and they were talking with Jesus.
5 Non enim sciebat quid diceret: erant enim timore exterriti.
5 Peter answered Jesus, “Rabbi, it is good for us to be here. Let’s make three tents: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”
6 Et facta est nubes obumbrans eos: et venit vox de nube, dicens: Hic est Filius meus carissimus: audite illum.
6 For he didn’t know what to say, for they were very afraid.
7 Et statim circumspicientes, neminem amplius viderunt, nisi Jesum tantum secum.
7 A cloud came, overshadowing them, and a voice came out of the cloud, “This is my beloved Son. Listen to him.”
8 Et descendentibus illis de monte, præcepit illis ne cuiquam quæ vidissent, narrarent: nisi cum Filius hominis a mortuis resurrexerit.
8 Suddenly looking around, they saw no one with them any more, except Jesus only.
9 Et verbum continuerunt apud se: conquirentes quid esset, cum a mortuis resurrexerit.
9 As they were coming down from the mountain, he commanded them that they should tell no one what things they had seen, until after the Son of Man had risen from the dead.
10 Et interrogabant eum, dicentes: Quid ergo dicunt pharisæi et scribæ, quia Eliam oportet venire primum?
10 They kept this saying to themselves, questioning what the “rising from the dead” meant.
11 Qui respondens, ait illis: Elias cum venerit primo, restituet omnia: et quomodo scriptum est in Filium hominis, ut multa patiatur et contemnatur.
11 They asked him, saying, “Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”
12 Sed dico vobis quia et Elias venit (et fecerunt illi quæcumque voluerunt) sicut scriptum est de eo.
12 He said to them, “Elijah indeed comes first, and restores all things. How is it written about the Son of Man, that he should suffer many things and be despised?
13 Et veniens ad discipulos suos, vidit turbam magnam circa eos, et scribas conquirentes cum illis.
13 But I tell you that Elijah has come, and they have also done to him whatever they wanted to, even as it is written about him.”
14 Et confestim omnis populus videns Jesum, stupefactus est, et expaverunt, et accurrentes salutabant eum.
14 Coming to the disciples, he saw a great multitude around them, and scribes questioning them.
15 Et interrogavit eos: Quid inter vos conquiritis?
15 Immediately all the multitude, when they saw him, were greatly amazed, and running to him, greeted him.
16 Et respondens unus de turba, dixit: Magister, attuli filium meum ad te habentem spiritum mutum:
16 He asked the scribes, “What are you asking them?”
17 qui ubicumque eum apprehenderit, allidit illum, et spumat, et stridet dentibus, et arescit: et dixi discipulis tuis ut ejicerent illum, et non potuerunt.
17 One of the multitude answered, “Teacher, I brought to you my son, who has a mute spirit;
18 Qui respondens eis, dixit: O generatio incredula, quamdiu apud vos ero? quamdiu vos patiar? afferte illum ad me.
18 and wherever it seizes him, it throws him down; and he foams at the mouth, grinds his teeth, and becomes rigid. I asked your disciples to cast it out, and they weren’t able.”
19 Et attulerunt eum. Et cum vidisset eum, statim spiritus conturbavit illum: et elisus in terram, volutabatur spumans.
19 He answered him, “Unbelieving generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him to me.”
20 Et interrogavit patrem ejus: Quantum temporis est ex quo ei hoc accidit? At ille ait: Ab infantia:
20 They brought him to him, and when he saw him, immediately the spirit convulsed him and he fell on the ground, wallowing and foaming at the mouth.
21 et frequenter eum in ignem, et in aquas misit ut eum perderet: sed si quid potes, adjuva nos, misertus nostri.
21 He asked his father, “How long has it been since this has been happening to him?” He said, “From childhood.
22 Jesus autem ait illi: Si potes credere, omnia possibilia sunt credenti.
22 Often it has cast him both into the fire and into the water to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.”
23 Et continuo exclamans pater pueri, cum lacrimis aiebat: Credo, Domine; adjuva incredulitatem meam.
23 Jesus said to him, “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.”
24 Et cum videret Jesus concurrentem turbam, comminatus est spiritui immundo, dicens illi: Surde et mute spiritus, ego præcipio tibi, exi ab eo: et amplius ne introëas in eum.
24 Immediately the father of the child cried out with tears, “I believe. Help my unbelief!”
25 Et exclamans, et multum discerpens eum, exiit ab eo, et factus est sicut mortuus, ita ut multi dicerent: Quia mortuus est.
25 When Jesus saw that a multitude came running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to him, “You mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him, and never enter him again!”
26 Jesus autem tenens manum ejus elevavit eum, et surrexit.
26 After crying out and convulsing him greatly, it came out of him. The boy became like one dead, so much that most of them said, “He is dead.”
27 Et cum introisset in domum, discipuli ejus secreto interrogabant eum: Quare nos non potuimus ejicere eum?
27 But Jesus took him by the hand and raised him up; and he arose.
28 Et dixit illis: Hoc genus in nullo potest exire, nisi in oratione et jejunio.
28 When he had come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, “Why couldn’t we cast it out?”
29 Et inde profecti prætergrediebantur Galilæam: nec volebat quemquam scire.
29 He said to them, “This kind can come out by nothing but by prayer and fasting.”
30 Docebat autem discipulos suos, et dicebat illis: Quoniam Filius hominis tradetur in manus hominum, et occident eum, et occisus tertia die resurget.
30 They went out from there and passed through Galilee. He didn’t want anyone to know it,
31 At illi ignorabant verbum: et timebant interrogare eum.
31 for he was teaching his disciples, and said to them, “The Son of Man is being handed over to the hands of men, and they will kill him; and when he is killed, on the third day he will rise again.”
32 Et venerunt Capharnaum. Qui cum domi essent, interrogabat eos: Quid in via tractabatis?
32 But they didn’t understand the saying, and were afraid to ask him.
33 At illi tacebant: siquidem in via inter se disputaverunt: quis eorum major esset.
33 He came to Capernaum, and when he was in the house he asked them, “What were you arguing among yourselves on the way?”
34 Et residens vocavit duodecim, et ait illis: Si quis vult primus esse, erit omnium novissimus, et omnium minister.
34 But they were silent, for they had disputed with one another on the way about who was the greatest.
35 Et accipiens puerum, statuit eum in medio eorum: quem cum complexus esset, ait illis:
35 He sat down and called the twelve; and he said to them, “If any man wants to be first, he shall be last of all, and servant of all.”
36 Quisquis unum ex hujusmodi pueris receperit in nomine meo, me recipit: et quicumque me susceperit, non me suscipit, sed eum qui misit me.
36 He took a little child and set him in the middle of them. Taking him in his arms, he said to them,
37 Respondit illi Joannes, dicens: Magister, vidimus quemdam in nomine tuo ejicientem dæmonia, qui non sequitur nos, et prohibuimus eum.
37 “Whoever receives one such little child in my name receives me; and whoever receives me, doesn’t receive me, but him who sent me.”
38 Jesus autem ait: Nolite prohibere eum: nemo est enim qui faciat virtutem in nomine meo, et possit cito male loqui de me:
38 John said to him, “Teacher, we saw someone who doesn’t follow us casting out demons in your name; and we forbade him, because he doesn’t follow us.”
39 qui enim non est adversum vos, pro vobis est.
39 But Jesus said, “Don’t forbid him, for there is no one who will do a mighty work in my name and be able quickly to speak evil of me.
40 Quisquis enim potum dederit vobis calicem aquæ in nomine meo, quia Christi estis: amen dico vobis, non perdet mercedem suam.
40 For whoever is not against us is on our side.
41 Et quisquis scandalizaverit unum ex his pusillis credentibus in me: bonum est ei magis si circumdaretur mola asinaria collo ejus, et in mare mitteretur.
41 For whoever will give you a cup of water to drink in my name because you are Christ’s, most certainly I tell you, he will in no way lose his reward.
42 Et si scandalizaverit te manus tua, abscide illam: bonum est tibi debilem introire in vitam, quam duas manus habentem ire in gehennam, in ignem inextinguibilem,
42 “Whoever will cause one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if he were thrown into the sea with a millstone hung around his neck.
43 ubi vermis eorum non moritur, et ignis non extinguitur.
43 If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having your two hands to go into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire,
44 Et si pes tuus te scandalizat, amputa illum: bonum est tibi claudum introire in vitam æternam, quam duos pedes habentem mitti in gehennam ignis inextinguibilis,
44 ‘where their worm doesn’t die, and the fire is not quenched.’
45 ubi vermis eorum non moritur, et ignis non extinguitur.
45 If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life lame, rather than having your two feet to be cast into Gehenna, into the fire that will never be quenched—
46 Quod si oculus tuus scandalizat te, ejice eum: bonum est tibi luscum introire in regnum Dei, quam duos oculos habentem mitti in gehennam ignis,
46 ‘where their worm doesn’t die, and the fire is not quenched.’
47 ubi vermis eorum non moritur, et ignis non extinguitur.
47 If your eye causes you to stumble, throw it out. It is better for you to enter into God’s Kingdom with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire,
48 Omnis enim igne salietur, et omnis victima sale salietur.
48 ‘where their worm doesn’t die, and the fire is not quenched.’
49 Bonum est sal: quod si sal insulsum fuerit, in quo illud condietis? Habete in vobis sal, et pacem habete inter vos.
49 For everyone will be salted with fire, and every sacrifice will be seasoned with salt. 50 Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”
Cross references (47)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Luke 9:27; Hebrews 2:9; Mark 13:30; Matthew 16:28; Luke 22:18
- 2 Luke 9:28–36; Matthew 17:1–8; Isaiah 33:17; Mark 5:37; Mark 14:33
- 3 Matthew 28:3; Daniel 7:9; Isaiah 1:18; Revelation 7:9; Psalm 104:1–2
- 4 Luke 9:30–31; Luke 24:44; Acts 3:21–24; Matthew 17:3–4; John 5:39
- 5 John 14:21–23; John 14:8–9; Psalm 84:10; Psalm 62:2–3; Revelation 22:3–4
- 6 Mark 16:5–8; Daniel 10:15–19; Revelation 1:17
- 7 2 Peter 1:17; Matthew 3:17; Luke 9:34–36; Mark 1:11; Hebrews 2:1
- 8 Luke 24:31; Acts 8:39–40; Acts 10:16; Luke 9:36
- 9 Matthew 17:9–13; Mark 5:43; Matthew 12:40; Matthew 27:63; Luke 24:46
- 10 Acts 17:18; John 2:19–22; John 16:17–19; Luke 18:33–34; Luke 24:7–8
- 11 Malachi 4:5; Malachi 3:1; Matthew 11:14; Mark 9:4; Matthew 17:10–11
- 12 Isaiah 53:1–12; Isaiah 50:6; Isaiah 52:14; Luke 1:16–17; Isaiah 40:3–5
- 13 Matthew 14:3–11; Matthew 17:12–13; Matthew 11:14; Luke 1:17; Acts 7:52
- 14 Luke 9:37–42; Matthew 17:14–20; Luke 11:53–54; Mark 2:6; Mark 12:14
- 15 Mark 9:2–3; Exodus 34:30
- 16 Luke 5:30–32; Mark 8:11
- 17 Mark 9:25; Luke 11:14; Luke 9:38; Mark 10:13; Mark 5:23
- 18 Mark 11:23; Mark 9:28–29; Luke 9:39–40; Matthew 17:19–20; Mark 9:20
- 19 Numbers 14:11; Luke 9:41; Psalm 106:21–25; Numbers 14:27; Matthew 17:17
- 20 Mark 1:26; Luke 4:35; 1 Peter 5:8; Luke 9:42; Mark 9:26
- 21 John 9:20–21; Acts 9:33; John 5:5–6; Mark 5:25; Luke 8:43
- 22 Mark 1:40–42; Matthew 15:22–28; Mark 5:19; Matthew 14:31; Matthew 8:2
- 23 John 11:40; Hebrews 11:6; Matthew 17:20; Mark 11:23; Matthew 21:21–22
- 24 Luke 17:5; Hebrews 12:2; Ephesians 2:8; 2 Thessalonians 1:11; 2 Thessalonians 1:3
- 25 Acts 16:18; Isaiah 35:5–6; Matthew 17:18; Mark 9:15; Luke 9:42
- 26 Mark 9:20; Mark 1:26; Exodus 5:23; Revelation 12:12; Mark 9:18
- 27 Mark 1:31; Acts 3:7; Mark 1:41; Mark 8:23; Mark 5:41
- 28 Matthew 17:19–20; Mark 7:17; Matthew 13:36; Matthew 13:10; Matthew 15:15
- 29 James 5:15; Daniel 9:3; Matthew 17:20; Ephesians 6:18; 2 Corinthians 12:8
- 30 Luke 9:43–45; Mark 6:31–32; Matthew 17:22–23; Matthew 27:22–23
- 31 Matthew 16:21; Mark 9:12; Mark 8:31; Luke 24:44–46; Matthew 20:18–19
- 32 Luke 18:34; John 16:19; Luke 9:45; Luke 2:50; John 12:16
- 33 Matthew 18:1–5; Hebrews 4:13; Luke 9:46–48; John 2:25; John 21:17
- 34 Mark 9:50; 1 Peter 5:3; Luke 22:24–30; Philippians 2:3–7; Luke 9:46–48
- 35 Matthew 20:25–28; Luke 22:26; Mark 10:42–45; Matthew 23:11; Luke 14:10–11
- 36 Mark 10:16; Matthew 18:2; Matthew 19:14–15
- 37 Matthew 18:3–5; Luke 10:16; Matthew 10:40–42; John 12:44–45; John 14:21–23
- 38 Luke 9:49–50; Numbers 11:26–29; Luke 11:19
- 39 1 Corinthians 12:3; 1 Corinthians 13:1–2; Philippians 1:18; Matthew 13:28–29; Matthew 7:22–23
- 40 Matthew 12:30; Luke 11:23
- 41 Matthew 10:42; Matthew 25:40
- 42 Matthew 18:6; Luke 17:1–2; Matthew 18:10; Matthew 25:45–46; Acts 26:11–14
- 43 Matthew 5:29–30; Matthew 18:8–9; Matthew 25:41; Hebrews 12:1; Matthew 5:22
- 45 Matthew 18:8; Matthew 5:22; Mark 9:43
- 47 Matthew 18:9; Matthew 5:28–29; Matthew 5:22; Mark 9:43; Psalm 119:37
- 48 Isaiah 66:24; Matthew 25:41; Mark 9:43–45
- 49 Leviticus 2:13; Ezekiel 43:24
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
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Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
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