Mark 9:10

Mark 9:10. And they kept the saying. Probably this particular saying about the resurrection as the limit of their silence about what they had seen on the mount. Obedience to the command of Mark 9:9, is assumed in the account of Matthew, and asserted in that of Luke, and is of course implied here.

Questioning among themselves, etc. The perplexity was about this Resurrection, ‘What is the shall have risen again from the dead,' would be a literal rendering. However much they believed in a general resurrection, it was difficult for them to conceive of a resurrection after which they could tell of these things.

The unexampled fact, now the basis of our faith in a Living Saviour, could not be understood in advance. They doubtless continued wondering when and how the time would come when they could speak. Mark derived his exact information from Peter, who also alludes to this event in his second Epistle.