28And they answered, John the Baptist: but some say, Elias; and others, One of the prophets.
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And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not. Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No.
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
And they asked him, saying, Why say the scribes that Elias must first come? …
And said unto his servants, This is John the Baptist; he is risen from the dead; and therefore mighty works do shew forth themselves in him.
And king Herod heard of him;(for his name was spread abroad:) and he said, That John the Baptist was risen from the dead, and therefore mighty works do shew forth themselves in him. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 27-38)We have read a great deal of the doctrine Christ preached, and the miracles he wrought, which were many, and strange, and well-attested, of various kinds, and wrought in several places, to the astonishment of the multitudes that were eye-witnesses of them. It is now time for us to pause a little, and to consider what these things mean; the wondrous works which Christ then forbade the publishing of…
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