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Myles Coverdale Bible

Mark 9:6

For he knewe not what he sayde, and they were very fearfull.

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.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For he wist not what he saide, for they were afrayde.
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.
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 sayde vnto them: Verely I saye vnto you: There stode here some, which shal not taist of death, tyll they se the kyngdome of God come with power. 2 And after sixe dayes Iesus toke vnto him Peter, Iames and Ihon, and brought them vp in to an hye mountayne out of the waye alone, and was ttasfigured before them, 3 and his clothes were bright and very whyte as ye snowe, so whyte as no fuller can make vpon earth. 4 And there appeared vnto the Elias with Moses, and they talked with Iesus. 5 And Peter answered, and sayde vnto Iesus: Rabbi, here is good beynge for vs. Let vs make thre tabernacles: one for the, one for Moses, and one for Elias. 6 For he knewe not what he sayde, and they were very fearfull. 7 And there was a cloude, which ouershadowed the. And out of the cloude there came a voyce, and sayde: This is my deare sonne, heare him. 8 And immediatly they loked aboute them, and sawe noman more then Iesus onely with them. 9 But whan they wente downe from the mountayne, Iesus charged them, that they shulde tell no man what they had sene, tyll the sonne of man were rysen agayne from the deed. 10 And they kepte that sayenge by them, and axed one another: What is that rysinge agayne from the deed?

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 castest me out this daye from out of ye londe, and from yi sight must I hyde myself, and must be a vagabunde and a rennagate vpon ye earth. And thus shal it go with me: that who so fyndeth me, shal slaye me.
Genesis 5:1
This is the boke of the generacion of man, in the tyme whan God created man, and made him after the symilitude of God.
Genesis 9:2
The feare also and drede of you be vpon all beastes of the earth, vpon all foules vnder the heauen, and vpon all that crepeth on the earth, and all fyshes of the see be geuen in to youre hades.
Genesis 9:3
All that moueth and hath life, be youre meate. Euen as the grene herbe, so haue I geue you all.
Genesis 9:5
For the bloude of you wherin youre soule is, wyll I requyre of the hande of all beastes: and the soule of ma wyll I requyre of mans hande, yee euery mans soule of anothers hande.
Genesis 9:6
He that sheddeth mas bloude, his bloude shal be shed by man agayne, for God made man after his owne licknesse.
Genesis 9:12
And God sayde: This is the token of my couenaunt which I haue made betwene me and you, and all lyuynge creatures amonge you for euermore:
Genesis 9:14
so that wha I brynge cloudes vpon the earth, the bowe shal appeare in the cloudes.
Genesis 9:26
He sayde morouer: Praysed be the LORDE God of Sem, and Canaan be his seruaunt.
Genesis 9:27
God increase Iaphet, and let him dwell in the tentes of Sem, and Canaan be 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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