15 Others said -- `It is Elijah,' and others said -- `It is a prophet, or as one of the prophets.'
And the multitudes said, `This is Jesus the prophet, who `is' from Nazareth of Galilee.'
And they answered, `John the Baptist, and others Elijah, but others one of the prophets.'
Lo, I am sending to you Elijah the prophet, Before the coming of the day of Jehovah, The great and the fearful.
and they questioned him and said to him, `Why, then, dost thou baptize, if thou art not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?'
`For Moses, indeed, unto the fathers said -- A prophet to you shall the Lord your God raise up out of your brethren, like to me; him shall ye hear in all things, as many as he may speak unto you; and it shall be, every soul that may not hear that prophet shall be utterly destroyed out of the people;
They said to the blind man again, `Thou -- what dost thou say of him -- that he opened thine eyes?'
Many, therefore out of the multitude, having heard the word, said, `This is truly the Prophet;'
And his disciples questioned him, saying, `Why then do the scribes say that Elijah it behoveth to come first?' And Jesus answering said to them, `Elijah doth indeed come first, and shall restore all things,
And they questioned him, `What then? Elijah art thou?' and he saith, `I am not.' -- `The prophet art thou?' and he answered, `No.'
and by certain, that Elijah did appear, and by others, that a prophet, one of the ancients, was risen;
And the Pharisee who did call him, having seen, spake within himself, saying, `This one, if he were a prophet, would have known who and of what kind `is' the woman who doth touch him, that she is a sinner.'
and he shall go before Him, in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn hearts of fathers unto children, and disobedient ones to the wisdom of righteous ones, to make ready for the Lord, a people prepared.'
And certain of those standing by, having heard, said, `Lo, Elijah he doth call;' and one having run, and having filled a spunge with vinegar, having put `it' also on a reed, was giving him to drink, saying, `Let alone, let us see if Elijah doth come to take him down.'
And he answering said to them, `Elijah indeed, having come first, doth restore all things; and how hath it been written concerning the Son of Man, that many things he may suffer, and be set at nought? But I say to you, That also Elijah hath come, and they did to him what they willed, as it hath been written of him.'
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Commentary on Mark 6 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 6
A great variety of observable passages we have, in this chapter, concerning our Lord Jesus, the substance of all which we had before in Matthew, but divers circumstances we have, which we did not there meet with. Here is,
Mar 6:1-6
Here,
Mar 6:7-13
Here is,
Mar 6:14-29
Here is,
Note,
Mar 6:30-44
In there verses, we have,
Mar 6:45-56
This passage of story we had Mt. 14:22, etc., only what was there related concerning Peter, is omitted here. Here we have,