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 suffering, and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.
• 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.
• Acts 13:24–28before his coming, when John had first preached the baptism of repentance to Israel.
• Mark 6:14–28King Herod heard this, for his name had become known, and he said, “John the Baptizer has risen from the dead, and therefore these powers are at work in him.”
• John 5:32–36It is another who testifies about me. I know that the testimony which he testifies about me is true.
• Acts 3:14–15But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,
• Mark 9:12–13He said to them, “Elijah indeed comes first, and restores all things. How is it written about the Son of Man, that he should suffer many things and be despised?
• Acts 4:10be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, in him does this man stand here before you whole.
• Acts 7:52Which of the prophets didn’t your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.
• Mark 11:30–32The baptism of John — was it from heaven, or from men? Answer me.”
• Luke 7:33For John the Baptizer came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon.’
• Luke 3:19–20but Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias, his brother’s wife, and for all the evil things which Herod had done,
• Acts 2:23him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;
• John 1:11He came to his own, and those who were his own didn’t receive him.
• Matt 21:32For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you didn’t believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. When you saw it, you didn’t even repent afterward, that you might believe him.
• Luke 9:21–25But he warned them, and commanded them to tell this to no one,
• Matt 11:9–15But why did you go out? To see a prophet? Yes, I tell you, and much more than a prophet.
• Matt 11:2Now when John heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples
• Matt 14:3–10For Herod had laid hold of John, and bound him, and put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife.
• Matt 21:23–25When he had come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching, and said, “By what authority do you do these things? Who gave you this authority?”

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