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Scripture Analysis

John 1:19

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This is John’s testimony, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?”

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  • Was John the Baptist Elijah?

    In Matthew 11:14 Jesus says of John the Baptist: "this is Elijah, which was for to come," and Matthew 17:12-13 makes the identification explicit — the disciples "understood that he spake unto them of John the Baptist." Luke 7:24-27 confirms the same identification via Malachi 3:1.

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