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Matthew 17:10

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His disciples asked him, saying, “Then why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”

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Matthew 17:10 in other translations

And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elijah must first come?

Matthew 17:10 · American Standard Version

Matthew 17:10 in context

  1. 8Lifting up their eyes, they saw no one, except Jesus alone.
  2. 9As they were coming down from the mountain, Jesus commanded them, saying, “Don’t tell anyone what you saw, until the Son of Man has risen from the dead.”
  3. 10His disciples asked him, saying, “Then why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”
  4. 11Jesus answered them, “Elijah indeed comes first, and will restore all things,
  5. 12but I tell you that Elijah has come already, and they didn’t recognize him, but did to him whatever they wanted to. Even so the Son of Man will also suffer by them.”