Matthew 17:10

And his disciples asked him, saying,.... That is, these three, Peter, James, and John, before they came to the rest; whilst they were going down the mountain, or from it, to the place where the others…

See also Mar 9:11-13. Why then say the scribes ... - The disciples appear to have been satisfied now that he was the Messiah. The transfiguration had taken away all their doubts, but they recollected…

We have here the story of Christ's transfiguration; he had said that the Son of man should shortly come in his kingdom, with which promise all the three evangelists industriously connect this story;…

Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come? The truth of the resurrection was new to the disciples, see Mar 9:10. "If thou art the Messiah," they say, "and shalt rise from the dead, surely…