Mark 9:14-19

And when they came to the disciples, they saw a great crowd around them, and scribes arguing with them. And immediately all the crowd, when they saw him, were greatly amazed and ran up to him and greeted him. And he asked them, “What are you arguing about with them?” And someone from the crowd answered him, “Teacher, I brought my son to you, for he has a spirit that makes him mute. And whenever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams and grinds his teeth and becomes rigid. So I asked your disciples to cast it out, and they were not able.” And he answered them, “O faithless generation, how long am I to be with you? How long am I to bear with you? Bring him to me.” 

When Yeshu said, ‘You faithless generation!’, of whom did he speak? was it the disciples because they were unable to cast out the demon? or was it the father of the boy? Perhaps the critical attitude of the scribes had affected everyone, both the father and the crowd and the disciples.

You may be able to decide the answer if you read on.

Mark 9:11-13

And they asked him, “Why do the scribes say that first Elijah must come?” And he said to them, “Elijah does come first to restore all things. And how is it written of the Son of Man that he should suffer many things and be treated with contempt? But I tell you that Elijah has come, and they did to him whatever they pleased, as it is written of him.”

In answer Yeshu said, ‘The scribes are right. Elijah did indeed come first before me the Messiah (Elijah came in the form of the reformer John the Baptist).’

He added, ‘Elijah came first, and Elijah was killed. I then came; and what else is written in scripture? It says those things too will be done to me.’

Mark 9:9-10

And as they were coming down the mountain, he charged them to tell no one what they had seen, until the Son of Man had risen from the dead. So they kept the matter to themselves, questioning what this rising from the dead might mean.

Such glory! Yeshu surrounded by the very light and voice of God Himself! The three disciples agree to keep quiet, but they do discuss it between themselves.

The Jews believed that they would rise at the last day. However Yeshu speaks of himself rising from the dead at an earlier time than the last day.

It was this that they did not understand. What about the prophet Elijah? Doesn’t he first have to come again? (read on)