Matthew 17:12

Jesus declares that Elijah has already come in John the Baptist, who was rejected and killed, and that the Son of Man will likewise suffer. He links John's fate to his own coming passion.

Cross-references · 20

• Isa 53:3–12He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Like one from whom men hide their faces, He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.
• Matt 16:21From that time on Jesus began to show His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and that He must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.
• Acts 13:24–28Before the arrival of Jesus, John preached a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.
• Mark 6:14–28Now King Herod heard about this, for Jesus’ name had become well known, and people were saying, “John the Baptist has risen from the dead! That is why miraculous powers are at work in him.”
• John 5:32–36There is another who testifies about Me, and I know that His testimony about Me is valid.
• Acts 3:14–15You rejected the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a murderer be released to you.
• Mark 9:12–13He replied, “Elijah does indeed come first, and he restores all things. Why then is it written that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected?
• Acts 4:10then let this be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed.
• Acts 7:52Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One. And now you are His betrayers and murderers—
• Mark 11:30–32John’s baptism—was it from heaven or from men? Answer Me!”
• Luke 7:33For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon!’
• Luke 3:19–20But when he rebuked Herod the tetrarch regarding his brother’s wife Herodias and all the evils he had done,
• Acts 2:23He was delivered up by God’s set plan and foreknowledge, and you, by the hands of the lawless, put Him to death by nailing Him to the cross.
• John 1:11He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him.
• Matt 21:32For John came to you in a righteous way and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and prostitutes did. And even after you saw this, you did not repent and believe him.
• Luke 9:21–25Jesus strictly warned them not to tell this to anyone.
• Matt 11:9–15What then did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet.
• Matt 11:2Meanwhile John heard in prison about the works of Christ, and he sent his disciples
• Matt 14:3–10Now Herod had arrested John and bound him and put him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife,
• Matt 21:23–25When Jesus returned to the temple courts and began to teach, the chief priests and elders of the people came up to Him. “By what authority are You doing these things?” they asked. “And who gave You this authority?”

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