“Why does Jesus command the disciples not to tell anyone about the Transfiguration? So that people, hearing of such glory of Christ, would not afterwards be scandalized when they see Him being crucified. But after the Resurrection from the dead, it will be easy to speak of such a glorious event that took place before t…”
Theophylact of Ohrid, 12th c. — Commentary on Mark
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10And they kept that saying with themselves, questioning one with another what the rising from the dead should mean.
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8And suddenly, when they had looked round about, they saw no man any more, save Jesus only with themselves.
9And as they came down from the mountain, he charged them that they should tell no man what things they had seen, till the Son of man were risen from the dead.
— Mark 9:10 —
11And they asked him, saying, Why say the scribes that Elias must first come?
12And he answered and told them, Elias verily cometh first, and restoreth all things; and how it is written of the Son of man, that he must suffer many things, and be set at nought.