12And he answered and told them, Elias verily cometh first, and restoreth all things; and how it is written of the Son of man, that he must suffer many things, and be set at nought.
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Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? …
I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:
The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. …
And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God. …
Commentary
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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