John Gill Commentary Mark 9:16

"And he asked them, What question ye with them?" — Mark 9:16 (ASV)

And he asked the Scribes
The Vulgate Latin renders it, "he asked them"; and the Ethiopic version, he said unto them; meaning either that he asked the disciples when he came to them, or else the people that ran to salute him; but the Syriac, Arabic, and Persic versions read, "the Scribes"; seeing them about his disciples, in close debate with them, and running hard upon them, he asks them,

what question you with them ?
what is it you seek and require of them? what is your dispute with them? what is your debate about? The Vulgate Latin version reads, "what question you among you?" among themselves, and one another; and so Beza's most ancient copy.