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Instantly they looked round, and now they could no longer see any one, but themselves and Jesus.
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As they were coming down from the mountain, He very strictly forbad them to tell any one what they had seen "until after the Son of Man has risen from among the dead."
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So they kept the matter to themselves, although frequently asking one another what was meant by the rising from the dead.
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They also asked Him, "How is it that the Scribes say that Elijah must first come?"
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"Elijah," He replied, "does indeed come first and reforms everything; but how is it that it is written of the Son of Man that He will endure much suffering and be held in contempt?
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Yet I tell you that not only has Elijah come, but they have also done to him whatever they chose, as the Scriptures say about him."
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As they came to rejoin the disciples, they saw an immense crowd surrounding them and a party of Scribes disputing with them.
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Immediately the whole multitude on beholding Him were astonished and awe-struck, and yet they ran forward and greeted Him.
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"What is the subject you are discussing?" He asked them.
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"Rabbi," answered one of the crowd, "I have brought you my son. He has a dumb spirit in him;
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and wherever it comes upon him, it dashes him to the ground, and he foams at the mouth and grinds his teeth, and he is pining away. I begged your disciples to expel it, but they had not the power."