Elijah Comes First

152	ELIJAH COMES FIRST
Matt 17		Mark 9		Luke
9	And as they were coming	9	And as they were coming
	down the mountain,		down the mountain,
	Jesus commanded them,		he charged them
	"Tell no one the vision,		to tell no one what they had seen,
	until the Son of man		until the Son of man
	is raised from the dead."		should have risen from the dead.
		10	So they kept the matter to themselves,
			questioning
			what the rising from the dead meant.
10	And the disciples asked him,	11	And they asked him,
	"Then why do the scribes say		"Why do the scribes say
	that first Elijah must come?"		that first Elijah must come?"
11	He replied,	12	And he said to them,
	"Elijah does come,		"Elijah does come first
	and he is to restore all things;		to restore all things;
			and how is it written
	[see Matt 17:12 below]		of the Son of man,*
			that he should suffer* many things
			and be treated with contempt?
12	but I tell you	13	But I tell you
	that Elijah has already come,		that Elijah has come,
	and they did not know him,		and
	but did to him		they did to him
	whatever they pleased.		whatever they pleased,
			as it is written of him."
	So also the Son of man will suffer*		[see Mark 9:12 above]
	at their hands."
13	Then the disciples understood
	that he was speaking to them
	of John the Baptist.

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*	Same wording, different order.
152	Sequence in synoptic outlines