In Context

5 While he is yet speaking, lo, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and lo, a voice out of the cloud, saying, 'This is My Son, — the Beloved, in whom I did delight; hear him.'

6 And the disciples having heard, did fall upon their face, and were exceedingly afraid,

7 and Jesus having come near, touched them, and said, 'Rise, be not afraid,'

8 and having lifted up their eyes, they saw no one, except Jesus only.

9 And as they are coming down from the mount, Jesus charged them, saying, 'Say to no one the vision, till the Son of Man out of the dead may rise.'

10 And his disciples questioned him, saying, 'Why then do the scribes say that Elijah it behoveth to come first?'

Matthew 17:8 in Other Translations