Mark 9:7

THE MESSAGE

Just then a light-radiant cloud enveloped them, and from deep in the cloud, a voice: "This is my Son, marked by my love. Listen to him."

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
A cloud appeared, overshadowing them, and a voice came from the cloud: “This is my beloved Son; listen to him!”

King James Version (1611)
And there was a cloud that ouershadowed them: and a voyce came out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloued Sonne: heare him.

King James Version
And there was a cloud that overshadowed them: and a voice came out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son: hear him.

English Standard Version
And a cloud overshadowed them, and a voice came out of the cloud, "This is my beloved Son; listen to him."

New American Standard Bible
Then a cloud formed, overshadowing them, and a voice came out of the cloud: "This is My beloved Son; listen to Him!"

New Century Version
Then a cloud came and covered them, and a voice came from the cloud, saying, "This is my Son, whom I love. Listen to him!"

Amplified Bible
Then a cloud formed, overshadowing them, and a voice came out of the cloud, "This is My beloved Son. Listen to Him and obey Him!"

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then a cloud formed, overshadowing them, and a voice came out of the cloud, "This is My beloved Son, listen to Him!"

Legacy Standard Bible
Then a cloud formed, overshadowing them, and a voice came out of the cloud, "This is My beloved Son, listen to Him!"

Berean Standard Bible
Then a cloud appeared and enveloped them, and a voice came from the cloud: "This is My beloved Son. Listen to Him!"

Contemporary English Version
The shadow of a cloud passed over and covered them. From the cloud a voice said, "This is my Son, and I love him. Listen to what he says!"

Complete Jewish Bible
Then a cloud enveloped them; and a voice came out of the cloud, "This is my Son, whom I love. Listen to him!"

Darby Translation
And there came a cloud overshadowing them, and there came a voice out of the cloud, *This* is my beloved Son: hear him.

Easy-to-Read Version
Then a cloud came and covered them. A voice came from the cloud and said, "This is my Son, the one I love. Obey him!"

Geneva Bible (1587)
And there was a cloude that shadowed them, and a voyce came out of the cloude, saying, This is my beloued Sonne: heare him.

George Lamsa Translation
And there was a cloud overshadowing them, and a voice out of the cloud said, This is my beloved Son; hear him.

Good News Translation
Then a cloud appeared and covered them with its shadow, and a voice came from the cloud, "This is my own dear Son—listen to him!"

Lexham English Bible
And a cloud came, overshadowing them, and a voice came from the cloud, "This is my beloved Son. Listen to him!"

Literal Translation
And a cloud was overshadowing them, and a voice came out of the cloud, saying, "This is My Son," the Beloved; hear Him. Psa. 2:7; Gen. 22:2; Deut. 18:15

American Standard Version
And there came a cloud overshadowing them: and there came a voice out of the cloud, This is my beloved Son: hear ye him.

Bible in Basic English
And a cloud came over them; and a voice came out of the cloud, saying, This is my dearly loved Son, give ear to him.

Hebrew Names Version
A cloud came, overshadowing them, and a voice came out of the cloud, "This is my beloved Son. Listen to him."

International Standard Version
Then a cloud appeared and overshadowed them. A voice came out of the cloud and said,and said">[fn] "This is my Son, whom I love. Keep on listening to him!"

Etheridge Translation
And there was the cloud, and it shadowed over them: and the voice was from the cloud, saying, This is my Son, the Beloved, him hear. [fn]

Murdock Translation
And there was a cloud, and it overshadowed them. And a voice issued from the cloud, which said: This is my beloved Son. Hear ye him.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And there was a cloude that shadowed them: and a voyce came out of the cloude, saying, This is my beloued sonne, heare hym.

English Revised Version
And there came a cloud overshadowing them: and there came a voice out of the cloud, This is my beloved Son: hear ye him.

World English Bible
A cloud came, overshadowing them, and a voice came out of the cloud, "This is my beloved Son. Listen to him."

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And there was a cloud that overshadowed them, and a voice came out of the cloud, This is my beloved Son; hear him.

Weymouth's New Testament
Then there came a cloud spreading over them, and a voice issued from the cloud, "This is my Son, dearly loved: listen to Him."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And ther was maad a cloude overschadewynge hem; and a vois cam of the cloude, and seide, This is my moost derworth sone, here ye hym.

Update Bible Version
And there came a cloud overshadowing them: and there came a voice out of the cloud, This is my beloved Son: hear him.

Webster's Bible Translation
And there was a cloud that overshadowed them: and a voice came out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son: hear him.

New English Translation
Then a cloud overshadowed them, and a voice came from the cloud, "This is my one dear Son. Listen to him!"

New King James Version
And a cloud came and overshadowed them; and a voice came out of the cloud, saying, "This is My beloved Son. Hear Him!"

New Living Translation
Then a cloud overshadowed them, and a voice from the cloud said, "This is my dearly loved Son. Listen to him."

New Life Bible
A cloud came over them and a voice from the cloud said, "This is My much-loved Son. Listen to Him."

New Revised Standard
Then a cloud overshadowed them, and from the cloud there came a voice, "This is my Son, the Beloved; listen to him!"

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And there came a cloud, overshadowing them, and there came a voice, out of the cloud, - This is, my Son, the Beloved, Be hearkening unto him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
(9-6) And there was a cloud overshadowing them. And a voice came out of the cloud, saying: This is my most beloved Son. Hear ye him.

Revised Standard Version
And a cloud overshadowed them, and a voice came out of the cloud, "This is my beloved Son; listen to him."

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And ther was a cloude that shaddowed the. And a voyce came out of the cloude sayinge: This is my dere sonne here him.

Young's Literal Translation
And there came a cloud overshadowing them, and there came a voice out of the cloud, saying, `This is My Son -- the Beloved, hear ye him;'

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
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.

Mace New Testament (1729)
then a cloud surrounded them, and a voice from the cloud, said, "this is my beloved son, hear him."

Simplified Cowboy Version
Then a cloud seemed to pass over them all and a voice came from it saying, "This is my Boy, the Son who I love. When he says something, you'd all best listen."

Contextual Overview

¹ Then he drove it home by saying, "This isn't pie in the sky by and by. Some of you who are standing here are going to see it happen, see the kingdom of God arrive in full force." ²Six days later, three of them did see it. Jesus took Peter, James, and John and led them up a high mountain. His appearance changed from the inside out, right before their eyes. His clothes shimmered, glistening white, whiter than any bleach could make them. Elijah, along with Moses, came into view, in deep conversation with Jesus. ⁵Peter interrupted, "Rabbi, this is a great moment! Let's build three memorials—one for you, one for Moses, one for Elijah." He blurted this out without thinking, stunned as they all were by what they were seeing. ⁷ Just then a light-radiant cloud enveloped them, and from deep in the cloud, a voice: "This is my Son, marked by my love. Listen to him." ⁸ The next minute the disciples were looking around, rubbing their eyes, seeing nothing but Jesus, only Jesus. ⁹Coming down the mountain, Jesus swore them to secrecy. "Don't tell a soul what you saw. After the Son of Man rises from the dead, you're free to talk." They puzzled over that, wondering what on earth "rising from the dead" meant. ¹¹ Meanwhile they were asking, "Why do the religion scholars say that Elijah has to come first?" ¹²Jesus replied, "Elijah does come first and get everything ready for the coming of the Son of Man. They treated this Elijah like dirt, much like they will treat the Son of Man, who will, according to Scripture, suffer terribly and be kicked around contemptibly."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

a cloud: Exodus 40:34, 1 Kings 8:10-12, Psalms 97:2, Daniel 7:13, Matthew 17:5-7, Matthew 26:64, Luke 9:34-36, Acts 1:9, Revelation 1:7

This: Mark 1:11, Psalms 2:7, Matthew 3:17, Matthew 26:63, Matthew 27:43, Matthew 27:54, John 1:34, John 1:49, John 3:16-18, John 5:18, John 5:22-25, John 5:37, John 6:69, John 9:35, John 19:7, John 20:31, Acts 8:37, Romans 1:4, 2 Peter 1:17, 1 John 4:9, 1 John 4:10, 1 John 5:11, 1 John 5:12, 1 John 5:20

hear: Exodus 23:21, Exodus 23:22, Deuteronomy 18:15-19, Acts 3:22, Acts 3:23, Acts 7:37, Hebrews 2:1, Hebrews 12:25, Hebrews 12:26

Reciprocal: Exodus 19:9 - Lo Matthew 12:18 - my beloved Mark 4:24 - hear Mark 12:6 - his Luke 6:5 - General John 6:27 - for him 1 John 3:23 - his commandment

Cross-References

Genesis 9:1
God blessed Noah and his sons: He said, "Prosper! Reproduce! Fill the Earth! Every living creature—birds, animals, fish—will fall under your spell and be afraid of you. You're responsible for them. All living creatures are yours for food; just as I gave you the plants, now I give you everything else. Except for meat with its lifeblood still in it—don't eat that.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And there was a cloud that overshadowed them,.... Jesus, Moses, and Elias, and also the disciples; who, according to Luke, entered into it, and so were covered by it.

And a voice came out the cloud, saying, this is my beloved Son, hear him. This was the voice of God the Father, bearing a testimony to the sonship of Christ; and was directed, not to Moses and Elias, but to the disciples, enjoining them to hear and obey him, who was the end of the law and prophets; was the great prophet Moses had spoken of, and was to be hearkened to, and whom all the prophets had testified of, and in whom they all centred; :-.

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.