13But I say unto you, That Elias is indeed come, and they have done unto him whatsoever they listed, as it is written of him.
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For Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him, and put him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife. …
And if ye will receive it, this is Elias, which was for to come.
But I say unto you, That Elias is come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed. Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them. …
Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:
And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.
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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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