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 is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
• Matt 16:21From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day.
• Acts 13:24–28When John had first preached before his coming the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.
• Mark 6:14–28And king Herod heard of him; (for his name was spread abroad:) and he said, That John the Baptist was risen from the dead, and therefore mighty works do shew forth themselves in him.
• John 5:32–36There is another that beareth witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true.
• Acts 3:14–15But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you;
• Mark 9:12–13And he answered and told them, Elias verily cometh first, and restoreth all things; and how it is written of the Son of man, that he must suffer many things, and be set at nought.
• Acts 4:10Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole.
• Acts 7:52Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:
• Mark 11:30–32The baptism of John, was it from heaven, or of men? answer me.
• Luke 7:33For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a devil.
• Luke 3:19–20But Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias his brother Philip’s wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done,
• Acts 2:23Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
• John 1:11He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
• Matt 21:32For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not: but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterward, that ye might believe him.
• Luke 9:21–25And he straitly charged them, and commanded them to tell no man that thing;
• Matt 11:9–15But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? yea, I say unto you, and more than a prophet.
• Matt 11:2Now when John had heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples,
• Matt 14:3–10For Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him, and put him in prison for Herodias’ sake, his brother Philip’s wife.
• Matt 21:23–25And when he was come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came unto him as he was teaching, and said, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority?

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