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This is closely paralled in Matthew 17:9–13. Luke 9:36 only mentions the scerecy command.
Mark 9:9–13:
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. 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.”
While coming down the mountain, Jesus commands them to keep the vision secret until the Son of Man has risen from the dead. Jesus commands silence until after the resurrection.
Prophets receive revelation. They do not control when God’s truth may be proclaimed. Jesus does not merely receive revelation but sovereignly governs its disclosure, a role that in Scripture belongs to God alone.
Jesus identifies himself as the "Son of Man" from Daniel 7 and displays divine foreknowledge regarding his death and resurrection. He also clarifies that John the Baptist fulfilled the prophecy of Elijah’s return.
Jesus’s matter-of-fact reference to his own resurrection presupposes an authority over life and death that transcends normal human categories. Jesus is not guessing at prophecy—He is interpreting and closing it. Jesus speaks with sovereign freedom over the prophetic tradition, claiming authority to define both its meaning and its fulfillment.”