10And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then 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: …
And if ye will receive it, this is Elias, which was for to come.
And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not. Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No.
And they asked him, saying, Why say the scribes that Elias must first come?
And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet?
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-13)We have here thee story o Christ’s transfiguration; he ha said that the Son of man should shortly come in his kingdom , with which promise all the three evangelists industriously connect this story; as if Christ’s transfiguration were intended for a specimen and an earnest of the kingdom of Christ, and of that light and love of his, which therein appears to his select and sanctified ones. Peter sp…
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