Clarke's Bible Commentary - Mark 9:10
Verse 10. And they kept that saying] This verse is wanting in two MSS. and one of the Itala.
What the rising from the dead should mean.] otan eknekrwn anasth, When he should arise from the dead, is the reading of D, six others, Syriac, all the Persic, Vulgate, all the Itala, and Jerome. Griesbach approves of it.
There is nothing that answers to this verse either in Matthew or Luke.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 10. And they kept that saying with themselves , etc..] They retained it in their own mind, as the Persic version renders it; they kept [it] close, as Luke says, ( Luke 9:36), among themselves, and acquainted no man with it: and which refers either to the whole of Christ's charge, relating to the vision on the mount; or else only to what he said about his resurrection from the dead; and which they took notice of particularly, and laid hold upon, as the word will bear to be rendered; and so the Ethiopic version does render it, and they observed his saying; what he last said concerning the son of man's rising from the dead; questioning with one other what the rising from the dead should mean : they inquired, disputed, and reasoned with one another, what should be the meaning of such an expression: not that they were ignorant of the general resurrection of the dead; for this was the hope of Israel, and the general sense of the Jewish nation: but they did not know what he meant by his particular rising from the dead: whether he meant it in a literal sense, which supposed his death; and that though he had lately told them of, they knew not how to reconcile to the notions they had of a long and flourishing temporal kingdom of the Messiah; or whether he meant a and interest, in such manner as they expected.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-13 - Here is a prediction of the near approach Christ's kingdom. A glimps of that kingdom was given in the transfiguration of Christ. It is goo to be away from the world, and alone with Christ: and how good to be with Christ glorified in heaven with all the saints! But when it is well with us, we are apt not to care for others, and in the fulness of our enjoyments, we forget the many wants of our brethren. God own Jesus, and accepts him as his beloved Son, and is ready to accept us in him. Therefore we must own and accept him as our beloved Saviour, an must give up ourselves to be ruled by him. Christ does not leave the soul, when joys and comforts leave it. Jesus explained to the disciple the prophecy about Elias. This was very suitable to the ill usage of John Baptist.
Greek Textus Receptus
και 2532 CONJ τον 3588 T-ASM λογον 3056 N-ASM εκρατησαν 2902 5656 V-AAI-3P προς 4314 PREP εαυτους 1438 F-3APM συζητουντες 4802 5723 V-PAP-NPM τι 5101 I-NSN εστιν 2076 5748 V-PXI-3S το 3588 T-NSN εκ 1537 PREP νεκρων 3498 A-GPM αναστηναι 450 5629 V-2AAN
Robertson's NT Word Studies
9:10 {They kept the saying} (ton logon ekratesan) to themselves as Jesus had directed, but {questioning among themselves} (pros heautous sunzetountes). Now they notice his allusion to rising from the dead which had escaped them before (#Mr 8:31).
