11And they asked him, saying, Why say the scribes that Elias must first come?
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Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.
And if ye will receive it, this is Elias, which was for to come.
And there appeared unto them Elias with Moses: and they were talking with Jesus.
And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come? …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-13)Here is, I. A prediction of Christ’s kingdom now near approaching, Mark 9:1. That which is foretold, is, 1. That the kingdom of God would come , and would come so as to be seen : the kingdom of the Messiah shall be set up in the world by the utter destruction of the Jewish polity, which stood in the way of it; this was the restoring of the kingdom of God among men, which had been in a manner lost…
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