Mark 9:12

And he said unto them, Elijah indeed cometh first, and restoreth all things: and how is it written of the Son of man, that he should suffer many things and be set at naught?

It would seem that Cranfield is correct in understanding the second half of this verse as a statement, not a question (punctuation being a human additive to the text).[11] The meaning would thus be:

Having admitted that the scribes are correct in this that they say, Jesus goes on to suggest that "restoring all things" cannot mean just what on the surface it seems to mean, since Scripture foretells for the Son of man much suffering and humiliation.[12]

[11] C. E. B. Cranfield, op. cit., p. 298.

[12] Ibid.