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Mark 9:6

For he wist not what he saide, for they were afrayde.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Jesus, the Christ;   Mountain;   Peter;   The Topic Concordance - Hearing;   Jesus Christ;   Witness;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Mark, gospel of;   Moses;   Peter;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Transfiguration;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Transfiguration, the;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Peter;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Mark, the Gospel of;   Peter;   Transfiguration, the;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Mark, Gospel According to;   Mss;   Peter;   Tabor (1);   Transfiguration;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Moses ;   Reverence;   Transfiguration (2);   Undressed Cloth;   Winter ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - New Testament;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Transfiguration;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chief parables and miracles in the bible;   Elijah;   Gospel;   Transfiguration;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Rabbi;   Transfiguration, the;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Answer;   Elijah;   James;   Jesus Christ (Part 2 of 2);   Mark, the Gospel According to;   Moses;   Transfiguration;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Christianity in Its Relation to Judaism;   New Testament;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
because he did not know what to say, since they were terrified.
King James Version (1611)
For he wist not what to say, for they were sore afraid.
King James Version
For he wist not what to say; for they were sore afraid.
English Standard Version
For he did not know what to say, for they were terrified.
New American Standard Bible
For he did not know how to reply; for they became terrified.
New Century Version
Peter did not know what to say, because he and the others were so frightened.
Amplified Bible
For he did not [really] know what to say because they were terrified [and stunned by the miraculous sight].
New American Standard Bible (1995)
For he did not know what to answer; for they became terrified.
Legacy Standard Bible
For he did not know what to answer; for they became terrified.
Berean Standard Bible
For they were all so terrified that Peter did not know what else to say.
Contemporary English Version
But Peter and the others were terribly frightened, and he did not know what he was talking about.
Complete Jewish Bible
(He didn't know what to say, they were so frightened.)
Darby Translation
For he knew not what he should say, for they were filled with fear.
Easy-to-Read Version
Peter did not know what to say, because he and the other two followers were so afraid.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Yet hee knewe not what he saide: for they were afraide.
George Lamsa Translation
For he did not know what he was saying, for they were in fear.
Good News Translation
He and the others were so frightened that he did not know what to say.
Lexham English Bible
(For he did not know what he should answer, because they were terrified.)
Literal Translation
For he did not know what to say, for they were very fearful.
American Standard Version
For he knew not what to answer; for they became sore afraid.
Bible in Basic English
Because he was not certain what to say, for they were in great fear.
Hebrew Names Version
For he didn't know what to say, for they were very afraid.
International Standard Version
(PeterHe">[fn] didn't know how to respond, for they were terrified.)
Etheridge Translation
But he knew not what he said, for they were in fear.
Murdock Translation
But he did not know what he said, for they were in trepidation.
English Revised Version
For he wist not what to answer; for they became sore afraid.
World English Bible
For he didn't know what to say, for they were very afraid.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
For he knew not what to say; for they were sore afraid.
Weymouth's New Testament
For he knew not what to say: they were filled with such awe.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For he wiste not what he schulde seie; for thei weren agaste bi drede.
Update Bible Version
For he didn't know what to answer; for they became very afraid.
Webster's Bible Translation
For he knew not what to say: for they were greatly terrified.
New English Translation
(For they were afraid, and he did not know what to say.)
New King James Version
because he did not know what to say, for they were greatly afraid.
New Living Translation
He said this because he didn't really know what else to say, for they were all terrified.
New Life Bible
Peter did not know what to say. They were very much afraid.
New Revised Standard
He did not know what to say, for they were terrified.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
for he knew not what he should answer, for, greatly affrighted, had they become.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(9-5) For he knew not what he said: for they were struck with fear.
Revised Standard Version
For he did not know what to say, for they were exceedingly afraid.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And yet he wist not what he sayde: for they were afrayde.
Young's Literal Translation
for he was not knowing what he might say, for they were greatly afraid.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For he knewe not what he sayde, and they were very fearfull.
Mace New Testament (1729)
for he knew not what he said, they were all so frightned.
Simplified Cowboy Version
Pete only said this because when he got scared, he usually just ran-off at the mouth. But he wasn't the only one who was scared of what he was seeing.

Contextual Overview

1 And he saide vnto them: Ueryly I say vnto you, ther be some of them that stande here, whiche shall not taste of death, tyll they haue seene ye kyngdome of God come, with power. 2 And after sixe dayes, Iesus taketh Peter, and Iames, and Iohn, and leadeth them vp into an hye mountayne, out of the way, alone: and he was transfigured before them. 3 And his rayment dyd shyne, & became very whyte, euen as snowe: so whyte, as no fuller can make vpon the earth. 4 And there appeared vnto them Elias, with Moyses: And they talked with Iesu. 5 And Peter aunswered, and sayth to Iesu: Maister, here is good beyng for vs, let vs make also three tabernacles, one for thee, and one for Moyses, and one for Elias. 6 For he wist not what he saide, for they were afrayde. 7 And there was a cloude that shadowed them: and a voyce came out of the cloude, saying, This is my beloued sonne, heare hym. 8 And sodenly, when they had loked rounde about, they sawe no man, more then Iesus only, with them. 9 And as they came downe from the hyll, he charged them, that they should tell no man those thynges that they had seene, tyll the sonne of man were rysen from the dead agayne. 10 And they kept that saying with them, and demaunded one of another, what the rysing from the dead againe, should meane?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Mark 16:5-8, Daniel 10:15-19, Revelation 1:17

Reciprocal: Genesis 19:8 - let Genesis 19:31 - not Exodus 34:29 - wist Daniel 10:8 - and there Matthew 17:4 - answered Luke 5:9 - he Luke 9:33 - and let Luke 9:36 - And they

Cross-References

Genesis 4:14
Beholde, thou hast cast me out this day from the vpper face of the earth, & from thy face shall I be hyd, fugitiue also and a vacabounde shall I be in the earth: and it shall come to passe, that euery one that fyndeth me shal slay me.
Genesis 5:1
This is the booke of the generations of Ada. In the day that God created man, in the lykenesse of God made he hym.
Genesis 9:2
The feare of you, & the dread of you, shalbe vpon euery beast of the earth, and vpon euery foule of the ayre, vpon al that moueth vpon the earth, and vpon all the fishes of the sea, into your hande are they deliuered.
Genesis 9:3
Euery thyng that moueth it selfe, and that liueth, shall be meate for you, euen as the greene hearbe haue I geue you all thinges.
Genesis 9:5
And surely your blood of your lyues wyl I require: at the hande of euery beast wyll I require it, and at the hand of man, at the hande of mans brother wyll I require the life of man.
Genesis 9:6
Who so sheddeth mans blood, by man shall his blood be shed, for in the image of God made he man.
Genesis 9:12
And God sayde: this is the token of the couenaut which I make betweene me and you, and euery lyuyng creature that is with you, for euer.
Genesis 9:14
And it shall come to passe, that when I bryng a cloude vpon the earth, the bowe also shalbe seene in ye same cloude.
Genesis 9:26
He sayde moreouer: blessed be the Lord God of Sem, and Chanaan shalbe his seruaunt.
Genesis 9:27
God shall enlarge Iapheth: and he shall dwell in the tentes of Sem, and Chanaan shalbe his seruaunt.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For he wist not what to say,.... He did not know what he should say, or what was proper to be said by him, at such a time, in such circumstances, and before such persons;

for they were sore afraid. The Persic version reads, "he was": and so the Latin translation of the Syriac, though that itself is, "they were"; for all three were filled with consternation at what they saw and heard; so that they were scarcely themselves, and knew not well what they said or did.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And after six days ... - See this passage explained in the notes at Matthew 17:1-9.

Mark 9:3

No fuller - Rather, no “scourer.” The office of the person here mentioned was to “scour” or “whiten” cloth; not to “full” it, or to render it thicker.

Mark 9:6

He wist not - He “knew not.” He was desirous of saying something, and he knew not what would be proper.


 
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