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Mark 9 is the ninth chapter of the Gospel of Mark in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It begins with Jesus's prediction that "I tell you the truth, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the kingdom of God come with power." ((1 )) What exactly the kingdom of God refers to has been long debated. It immediately follows Jesus' statement of "... when he comes in his Father's glory with the holy angels." (Mark (8:38 )) in the preceding chapter. This could simply refer to the following Transfiguration. Some have thought this refers to the Second Coming, an event most hold did not happen within the lifetimes of those present. This could be a prediction that came true if you take into account John's Revelation of the Second Coming while he was on the island of Patmos. Others have interpreted it as Jesus referring to his resurrection and/or the coming of Christianity. It is also recorded in Matthew (16:28 ) and Luke (9:27 ). Matthew adds the statement that "... then he will reward each person according to what he has done" between the two. ==The Transfiguration== (詳細はPeter, James and John up an unnamed high mountain, which many came to believe was Mount Tabor. Suddenly Jesus' cloths become dazzingly white "... whiter than anyone in the world could bleach them." ((3 )) and Elijah and Moses appear. The disciples are stunned (for the first time Mark uses the term Rabbi, (Strong's G4461 )) and ask what they should do and offer to put up shelters for them. A voice comes from a cloud and says that "This is my Son, whom I love. Listen to him!" ((7 )) which is what Jesus heard the "voice from heaven" say when he was baptised by John the Baptist in Mark 1 () but now Mark has Peter, James, and John as witnesses to this. Elijah and Moses disappear and they head down the mountain. On the way down Jesus tells them to keep what had happened to themselves until the Son of Man had risen from the dead. They are confused as to what he means but do not ask him to clarify himself. They ask him about Elijah and he says: :''... 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. But I say unto you, That Elias is indeed come, and they have done unto him whatsoever they listed, as it is written of him.'' () KJV It was commonly believed that Elijah would reappear before the coming of the Messiah, as predicted in Malachi (4 ). Matthew (17:13 ) states that the three of them believed Jesus was comparing Elijah to John the Baptist. Moses could be seen as a representative of the law and Elijah a representative of the prophets. This whole passage has echos of Exodus (24 ) where clouds covered Mount Sinai for six days before Moses went up to receive the ten commandments. The original Greek uses the word ''metamorphothe'' which was translated into Latin as ''Trans Figura'', the changing of appearance or of the body itself. ==The Possessed Boy== They arrive back and find the rest of the disciples (students) arguing with several teachers surrounded by a crowd. Jesus asks "What are you arguing about?" (v 16) and a man says he brought his possessed boy for Jesus to heal. The boy "foams at the mouth, gnashes his teeth and becomes rigid." which sound like the symptoms of perhaps epilepsy, which Matthew states to be the case. The man says the boy has been made to fall both into water and fire by the demon. Jesus' disciples could not heal him. Jesus says "You faithless generation" (v 19). He commands the boy be brought to him. The father begs Jesus to help the boy ''if'' he can, to which Jesus replies "Everything is possible for him who believes." and the man says "I believe. Help my unbelief!"(v 24) Jesus heals the boy: when asked by the disciples privately why they couldn't cast it out, he replies "This kind can come out only through prayer and fasting" (v 29). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mark 9」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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