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Gospel of Mark, Chapter 9

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Chapter 9 of Mark—New World Translation (NWT)

  1. ¶ Furthermore, he went on to say to them: “Truly I say to YOU, There are some of those standing here that will not taste death at all until first they see the kingdom of God already come in power.”1
  2. Accordingly six days later Jesus took Peter and James and John along, and brought them up into a lofty mountain to themselves alone. And he was transfigured before them,2
  3. and his outer garments became glistening, far whiter than any clothes cleaner on earth could whiten them.3
  4. Also, E·liʹjah with Moses appeared to them, and they were conversing with Jesus.4
  5. And responsively Peter said to Jesus: “Rabbi, it is fine for us to be here, so let us erect three tents, one for you and one for Moses and one for E·liʹjah.”5
  6. In fact, he did not know what response he should make, for they became quite fearful.
  7. And a cloud formed, overshadowing them, and a voice6 came out of the cloud: “This is my Son,7 the beloved; listen to him.”8
  8. Suddenly, however, they looked around and saw no one with them any longer, except Jesus alone.9
  9. ¶ As they were coming down out of the mountain, he expressly ordered them not to relate10 to anybody what they saw, until after the Son of man had risen from the dead.11
  10. And they took the word to heart,[a] but discussed among themselves what this rising from the dead meant.
  11. And they began to question him, saying: “Why do the scribes say that first E·liʹjah12 must come?”13
  12. He said to them: “E·liʹjah does come first and restore all things;14 but how is it that it is written respecting the Son of man that he must undergo many sufferings15 and be treated as of no account?16
  13. But I say to YOU, E·liʹjah,17 in fact, has come, and they did to him as many things as they wanted, just as it is written respecting him.”18
  14. ¶ When, now, they came toward the other disciples, they noticed a great crowd about them and scribes disputing with them.19
  15. But as soon as all the crowd caught sight of him they were stunned, and, running up to him, they began to greet him.
  16. And he asked them: “What are YOU disputing with them?”
  17. And one of the crowd answered him: “Teacher, I brought my son to you because he has a speechless spirit;20
  18. and wherever it seizes him it dashes him to the ground, and he foams and grinds his teeth and loses his strength. And I told your disciples to expel it, but they were not capable.”21
  19. In response he said to them: “O faithless generation,22 how long must I continue with YOU? How long must I put up with YOU? Bring him to me.”23
  20. So they brought him to him. But at the sight of him the spirit at once threw [the child][b] into convulsions, and after falling on the ground he kept rolling about, foaming.24
  21. And he asked his father: “How long has this been happening to him?” He said: “From childhood on;
  22. and time and again it would throw him both into the fire and into the water to destroy him.25 But if you can do anything, have pity on us and help us.”
  23. Jesus said to him: “That expression, ‘If you can’! Why, all things can be to one if one has faith.”26
  24. Immediately crying out, the father of the young child was saying: “I have faith! Help me out where I need faith!”[c]27
  25. ¶ Jesus, now noticing that a crowd was running together upon [them], rebuked28 the unclean spirit, saying to it: “You speechless and deaf spirit, I order you, get out of him and enter into him no more.”
  26. And after crying out and going through many convulsions it got out;29 and he became as dead, so that the greater number of them were saying: “He is dead!”
  27. But Jesus took him by the hand and raised him up, and he rose.30
  28. So after he entered into a house his disciples proceeded to ask him privately: “Why could we not expel it?”31
  29. And he said to them: “This kind cannot get out by anything except by prayer.”32
  30. ¶ From there they departed and went their way through Galʹi·lee, but he did not want anyone to get to know it.
  31. For he was teaching his disciples and telling them: “The Son of man is to be delivered[d] into men’s hands, and they will kill him,33 but, despite being killed, he will rise three days later.”34
  32. However, they were not understanding the saying, and they were afraid to question him.35
  33. ¶ And they came into Ca·perʹna·um. Now when he was inside the house he put the question to them: “What were YOU arguing over on the road?”36
  34. They kept silent, for on the road they had argued among themselves who is greater.37
  35. So he sat down and called the twelve and said to them: “If anyone wants to be first, he must be last of all and minister of all.”38
  36. And he took a young child, stood it in their midst and put his arms around it and said to them:39
  37. “Whoever receives one of such young children on the basis of my name, receives me; and whoever receives me, receives, not me only, but also him that sent me forth.”40
  38. ¶ John said to him: “Teacher, we saw a certain man expelling demons by the use of your name and we tried to prevent him,41 because he was not accompanying us.”42
  39. But Jesus said: “Do not try to prevent him, for there is no one that will do a powerful work on the basis of my name that will quickly be able to revile me;43
  40. for he that is not against us is for us.44
  41. For whoever gives YOU a cup45 of water to drink on the ground that YOU belong to Christ,46 I truly tell YOU, he will by no means lose his reward.
  42. But whoever stumbles one of these little ones that believe, it would be finer for him if a millstone such as is turned by an ass were put around his neck and he were actually pitched into the sea.47
  43. ¶ “And if ever your hand makes you stumble, cut it off; it is finer for you to enter into life maimed than with two hands to go off into Ge·henʹna,[e] into the fire that cannot be put out.48
  44. [f] ——
  45. And if your foot makes you stumble, cut it off; it is finer for you to enter into life lame49 than with two feet to be pitched into Ge·henʹna.50
  46. [g] ——
  47. And if your eye makes you stumble, throw it away;51 it is finer for you to enter one-eyed into the kingdom of God than with two eyes to be pitched into Ge·henʹna,52
  48. where their maggot does not die and the fire is not put out.53
  49. ¶ “For everyone must be salted54 with fire.
  50. Salt is fine; but if ever the salt loses its strength,[h] with what will YOU season it itself?55 Have salt56 in yourselves, and keep peace57 between one another.”

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ Or, “they kept the word to themselves.”
  2. ^ Lit., “him.”
  3. ^ Lit., “Help my lack of faith!”
  4. ^ Or, “betrayed.”
  5. ^ See App 4C.
  6. ^ אBCW omit; AD, “where their maggot does not die and the fire is not put out.”
  7. ^ אBCW omit; AD, “where their maggot does not die and the fire is not put out.”
  8. ^ Or, “becomes without saltness.”

REFERENCES

  1. ^ Mt 16:28; Lu 9:27; 1Co 4:20
  2. ^ Mt 17:1; Lu 9:28
  3. ^ Da 7:9; Mt 17:2; 28:3; Lu 9:29
  4. ^ Mt 17:3; Lu 9:30
  5. ^ Mt 17:4; Lu 9:33
  6. ^ Lu 3:22; Jn 12:28
  7. ^ Ps 2:7; Is 42:1; Mt 3:17
  8. ^ De 18:15; Mt 17:5; Lu 9:35; Ac 3:22; 2Pe 1:17
  9. ^ Mt 17:8; Lu 9:36
  10. ^ Mt 12:16; Mr 8:30
  11. ^ Mt 17:9; Lu 9:36
  12. ^ Ml 4:5; Mr 8:28
  13. ^ Mt 17:10
  14. ^ Mt 17:11
  15. ^ Ge 3:15; Ps 22:6; Is 50:6; 53:3; Da 9:26
  16. ^ Lu 23:11; Pp 2:7
  17. ^ Mt 11:14; Lu 1:17
  18. ^ Mt 17:12
  19. ^ Lu 9:37
  20. ^ Mt 17:14; Lu 9:38
  21. ^ Mt 17:15; Lu 9:39
  22. ^ De 32:20
  23. ^ Mt 17:17; Lu 9:41
  24. ^ Mr 1:26; Lu 9:42
  25. ^ Mt 17:15
  26. ^ 2Ch 20:20; Mt 17:20; Mr 11:23; Lu 17:6; Jn 11:40; Ac 14:9
  27. ^ Lu 17:5; Eph 2:8; Heb 12:2
  28. ^ Mt 17:18; Mr 1:25; Lu 4:35; Ac 10:38
  29. ^ Mr 1:26
  30. ^ Lu 9:42
  31. ^ Mt 17:19
  32. ^ Mt 17:20
  33. ^ Mt 17:22; 26:2
  34. ^ Mt 16:21; 17:23; Mr 8:31; Lu 9:44
  35. ^ Lu 9:45; Jn 16:19
  36. ^ Mt 18:1; Lu 9:46; 22:24
  37. ^ Pr 13:10
  38. ^ Mt 18:1; 20:28; Mr 10:43; Lu 9:46; Pp 2:8
  39. ^ Mt 18:2; Mr 10:16; Lu 9:47; 18:16
  40. ^ Mt 10:40; 18:3; Lu 9:48; Jn 13:20
  41. ^ Nu 11:28; Ac 19:13
  42. ^ Lu 9:49
  43. ^ 1Co 12:3
  44. ^ Mt 12:30; Lu 9:50; 11:23
  45. ^ Mt 10:42; 25:35
  46. ^ Mt 25:40; Ro 8:9; 2Co 10:7
  47. ^ Mt 18:6; Lu 17:1
  48. ^ Mt 5:30; Col 3:5
  49. ^ Mt 18:8
  50. ^ Mt 10:28; 23:33; Lu 12:5
  51. ^ Mt 5:29; 18:9; Ro 8:13; Ga 5:24
  52. ^ Re 21:8
  53. ^ Is 66:24
  54. ^ Lu 17:29
  55. ^ Mt 5:13; Lu 14:34
  56. ^ Pr 15:1; 16:23; Col 4:6
  57. ^ Ro 12:18; Eph 4:29; 1Th 5:13; Heb 12:14

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Comments

  1. Kiamia DoelKiamia Doel
    Jan 9, 2025 23:00 GMT

    The NWT adds words to the text that are not in the greek Manuscripts to fit it's own doctrinal position for example

    Compare the wording of the NWT and the NKJV at Colossians 1:15-17

    NKJV says

    15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.

    NWT says

    15 He is the image of the invisible God,the firstborn OF all creation;16 because by means of him all OTHER things were created in the heavens and on the earth, the things visible and the things invisible,whether they are thrones or lordships or governments or authorities. All OTHER things have been created through him and for him. 17 Also, he is before all OTHER things,and by means of him all OTHER things were made to exist,

    The word “other” is not in the Greek but they add it Why? So they can decieve their followers into thinking that Christ was created by the Father and that he then created other things, that is not what the Greek says.

    1. SmeSme
      Feb 27, 2025 11:17 GMT

      Truth is from God and those that follow him. As for lies? John8:44

      Kiamia, I noticed you used a modern version of kjv to make your point about the nwt.

      Why didn’t you use the original kjv of col1:15?

      Is it because it disproves your point? It proves the opposite of what you wrote?

      Here is kjv col1:15 ¶” Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn OF every creature:“

      Now I appeal to your Christian nature to correct your mistake as God is watching each of us, and let us bless the God of Jesus his father.

      Kjv 1Pe 1:3  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ….

  2. YanekYanek
    Dec 24, 2024 22:18 GMT

    Joshua, Jehovah’s Witnesses have never denied the deity of the Messiah in his prehuman existence. While on Earth he was fully 100% human. I do not mean he was a mere human, he was not affected by Adam’s unfaithful behavior, he was sinless.

  3. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  4. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. James LernerJames Lerner
      Jul 20, 2024 09:48 GMT

      The NWT is Satanic filth to its very core.

      The JW Cult is Satanic to its very core.

      Praise Yahweh I will never be a victim of JW brainwashing. If I burn in Hell for eternity or I am ultimately annihilated so be it

      May Yahweh's curse rest on the Watchtower Society and its Satanic leadership

    2. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  5. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  6. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

    2. ChrisChris
      Jan 8, 2021 07:15 GMT

      Please site these intentional heresies. I am well versed in the watch tower outline and agree they are in many ways incorrect but i also bet i can point many out from EVERY established or main denomination. There is much to learn from them all as one who drinks milk?

      Judge not lest ye be judged, that is not to pass judgement on you either brother.

      I debate with scripture. I don't hold it to be true that Michael is Y'Shua HaMeshiach but I also firmly hold it to be true that our G-d and Heavenly Father are not the word encarnate and only begotten son.

      I love not seeing "lord" which i relate to baal. I feel the catholic church is a satanic establishment and I am aware a freemason started the hovies but there are evil in high places and our fight is also with principalities.

      What i'm saying is that in my darkest hours, those two were some of if not the only ones who would bring a Bible and eucharist and pray with me.

      We all fall short of the glory of G-d.

      Don't forget the NWT was recognized as the most accurate translation on Jeopardy.

      Lastly, this is different I noted than the NWT i have read and am very familiar with. Pull up the watchtower page and compare. I truly look forward to getting this one!

  7. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  8. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  9. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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