Other translations
American Standard Version
And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elijah must first come?
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And his disciples asked him and they were saying to him, “Why do the Scribes therefore say that Elijah must come first?”
Darby Bible Translation
And his disciples demanded of him saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias must first have come?
Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims Version (Genuine Leather Black)
And his disciples asked him, saying: Why then do the scribes say that Elias must come first?
ERV 1885 English Revised Version with Strong's Concordance
And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elijah must first come?
English Standard Version Journaling Bible
And the disciples asked him, “Then why do the scribes say that first Elijah must come?”
God's Word
So the disciples asked him, "Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?"
Holman Christian Standard Bible
So the disciples questioned Him, "Why then do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?"
International Standard Version
So the disciples asked him, "Why, then, do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?"
NET Bible
The disciples asked him, "Why then do the experts in the law say that Elijah must come first?"
New American Standard Bible
And His disciples asked Him, "Why then do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?"
New International Version
The disciples asked him, "Why then do the teachers of the law say that Elijah must come first?"
New Living Translation
Then his disciples asked him, "Why do the teachers of religious law insist that Elijah must return before the Messiah comes?"
Webster's Bible Translation
And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes, that Elijah must first come?
Weymouth New Testament
"Why then," asked the disciples, "do the Scribes say that Elijah must first come?"
The World English Bible
His disciples asked him, saying, "Then why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?"
EasyEnglish Bible
Then the three disciples said to Jesus, ‘The teachers of God's Law say that God's prophet Elijah must return first, before the Messiah comes. Why do they say this?’
Young‘s Literal Translation
And his disciples questioned him, saying, `Why then do the scribes say that Elijah it behoveth to come first?'
New Life Version
The followers asked Jesus, “Then why do the teachers of the Law say that Elijah must come first?”
Revised Geneva Translation
And His disciples asked Him, saying, “Why, then, do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”
The Voice Bible
Disciples: Master, why do the scribes teach that the prophet Elijah must come first?
Living Bible
His disciples asked, “Why do the Jewish leaders insist Elijah must return before the Messiah comes?”
New Catholic Bible
And the disciples asked him, “Why then do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”
Legacy Standard Bible
And His disciples asked Him, saying, “Why then do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”
Jubilee Bible 2000
Then his disciples asked him, saying, Why then do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?
Christian Standard Bible
So the disciples asked him, “Why then do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”
Amplified Bible © 1954
The disciples asked Him, Then why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?
New Century Version
Then his followers asked him, “Why do the teachers of the law say that Elijah must come first?”
The Message
The disciples, meanwhile, were asking questions. “Why do the religion scholars say that Elijah has to come first?”
Evangelical Heritage Version ™
His disciples asked him, “Then why do the experts in the law say that Elijah must come first?”
Mounce Reverse Interlinear New Testament
And the disciples asked him, saying, “Why then do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
And the disciples asked him, “Why, then, do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”
New Matthew Bible
And his disciples asked of him, saying, Why then do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?
Good News Translation®
Then the disciples asked Jesus, “Why do the teachers of the Law say that Elijah has to come first?”
Wycliffe Bible
And his disciples asked him, and said, What then say the scribes, that it behooveth that Elias come first? [And his disciples asked him, saying, What therefore say scribes, that it behooveth Elias first come?]
New Testament for Everyone
“So why,” asked the disciples, “do the scribes say that ‘Elijah must come first’?”
Contemporary English Version
The disciples asked Jesus, “Don't the teachers of the Law of Moses say Elijah must come before the Messiah does?”
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
And the disciples asked him, “Then why do the scribes say that first Eli′jah must come?”
J.B. Phillips New Testament
On their way down the hill-side Jesus warned them not to tell anyone about what they had seen until after the Son of Man had risen from the dead. Then the disciples demanded, “Why is it, then, that the scribes always say Elijah must come first?”
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
And the disciples asked him, “Why, then, do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
And the disciples asked him, ‘Why, then, do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?’
Common English Bible © 2011
The disciples asked, “Then why do the legal experts say that Elijah must first come?”
Amplified Bible © 2015
The disciples asked Him, “Then why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”
English Standard Version Anglicised
And the disciples asked him, “Then why do the scribes say that first Elijah must come?”
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Then the disciples asked him, “Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”
New American Standard Bible
And His disciples asked Him, “Why then do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”
The Expanded Bible
Then his ·followers [disciples] asked him, “Why do the ·teachers of the law [scribes] say that Elijah must come first [C that is, before the Messiah comes; Mal. 3:1; 4:5]?”
Tree of Life Version
The disciples questioned Him, saying, “Why then do the Torah scholars say that Elijah must come first?”
Revised Standard Version
And the disciples asked him, “Then why do the scribes say that first Eli′jah must come?”
New International Reader's Version
The disciples asked him, “Why do the teachers of the law say that Elijah has to come first?”
BRG Bible
And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come?
Complete Jewish Bible
The talmidim asked him, “Then why do the Torah-teachers say that Eliyahu must come first?”
Worldwide English (New Testament)
The disciples asked him, `Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?'
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
And the disciples asked him, ‘Why, then, do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?’
Orthodox Jewish Bible
And Moshiach’s talmidim asked him, saying, Why then do the Sofrim say that it is necessary for Eliyahu HaNavi to come first?
Names of God Bible
So the disciples asked him, “Why do the experts in Moses’ Teachings say that Elijah must come first?”
Modern English Version
His disciples asked Him, “Why then do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”
Easy-to-Read Version
The followers asked Jesus, “Why do the teachers of the law say that Elijah must come before the Messiah comes?”
International Children’s Bible
The followers asked Jesus, “Why do the teachers of the law say that Elijah must come first, before the Christ comes?”
Lexham English Bible
And the disciples asked him, saying, “Then why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”
New International Version - UK
The disciples asked him, ‘Why then do the teachers of the law say that Elijah must come first?’
Disciples Literal New Testament
And the disciples questioned Him, saying, “Why then do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”