Mark 9:12

Jesus affirms that Elijah does come first to restore all things, yet asks why Scripture says the Son of Man must suffer. He joins the Elijah expectation to his own suffering.

Cross-references · 25

• Isa 53:1–12Who has believed our message? To whom has the arm of Yahweh been revealed?
• Isa 50:6I gave my back to those who beat me, and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair. I didn’t hide my face from shame and spitting.
• Isa 52:14Just as many were astonished at you (his appearance was marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men),
• Isa 40:3–5The voice of one who calls out, “Prepare the way of Yahweh in the wilderness! Make a level highway in the desert for our God.
• Luke 1:16–17He will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord, their God.
• Luke 23:11Herod with his soldiers humiliated him and mocked him. Dressing him in luxurious clothing, they sent him back to Pilate.
• Isa 49:7Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and rise up; princes, and they shall worship; because of Yahweh who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”
• Ps 22:1–31For the Chief Musician; set to “The Doe of the Morning.” A Psalm by David. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?
• Zech 13:7“Awake, sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is close to me,” says Yahweh of Armies. “Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; and I will turn my hand against the little ones.
• Matt 11:2–18Now when John heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples
• John 3:27–30John answered, “A man can receive nothing, unless it has been given him from heaven.
• Ps 69:1–36For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Lilies.” By David. Save me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck!
• Mal 4:6He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.”
• Luke 1:76And you, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High, for you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways,
• Matt 3:1–12In those days, John the Baptizer came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, saying,
• Dan 9:24–26Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.
• Luke 3:2–6in the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John, the son of Zacharias, in the wilderness.
• Zech 11:13Yahweh said to me, “Throw it to the potter, the handsome price that I was valued at by them!” I took the thirty pieces of silver, and threw them to the potter, in Yahweh’s house.
• Ps 74:22Arise, God! Plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish man mocks you all day.
• Mark 1:2–8As it is written in the prophets, “Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you:
• Luke 23:39One of the criminals who was hanged insulted him, saying, “If you are the Christ, save yourself and us!”
• Matt 16:21From that time, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.
• Matt 26:24The Son of Man goes, even as it is written of him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born.”
• John 1:6–36There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John.
• Phil 2:7–8but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.

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