But others said, “He is Elijah.” Others said, “He is a prophet, or like one of the prophets.”
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But others said, “He is Elijah.” Others said, “He is a prophet, or like one of the prophets.”
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Wother sayd it is Helyas: and some sayde: it is a Prophet or as one of the Prophetes.
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Other sayd, It is Elias, and some sayd, It is a Prophet, or as one of those Prophets.
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Passages linked to Mark 6:15 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Malachi 4:5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.
- Matthew 16:14 They said, “Some say John the Baptizer, some, Elijah, and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.”
- Matthew 21:11 The multitudes said, “This is the prophet, Jesus, from Nazareth of Galilee.”
- Mark 8:28 They told him, “John the Baptizer, and others say Elijah, but others: one of the prophets.”
- Matthew 17:10-11 His disciples asked him, saying, “Then why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?” Jesus answered them, “Elijah indeed comes first, and will restore all things,
- Mark 9:12-13 He 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? But I tell you that Elijah has come, and they have also done to him whatever they wanted to, even as it is written about him.”
- Mark 15:35-36 Some of those who stood by, when they heard it, said, “Behold, he is calling Elijah.” One ran, and filling a sponge full of vinegar, put it on a reed, and gave it to him to drink, saying, “Let him be. Let’s see whether Elijah comes to take him down.”
- Luke 1:17 He will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, ‘to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,’ and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to prepare a people prepared for the Lord.”
- Luke 7:16 Fear took hold of all, and they glorified God, saying, “A great prophet has arisen among us!” and, “God has visited his people!”
- Luke 7:39 Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, “This man, if he were a prophet, would have perceived who and what kind of woman this is who touches him, that she is a sinner.”
- Luke 9:8 and by some that Elijah had appeared, and by others that one of the old prophets had risen again.
- Luke 9:19 They answered, “ ‘John the Baptizer,’ but others say, ‘Elijah,’ and others, that one of the old prophets has risen again.”
- John 1:21 They asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the prophet?” He answered, “No.”
- John 1:25 They asked him, “Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?”
- John 6:14 When therefore the people saw the sign which Jesus did, they said, “This is truly the prophet who comes into the world.”
- John 7:40 Many of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, “This is truly the prophet.”
- John 9:17 Therefore they asked the blind man again, “What do you say about him, because he opened your eyes?” He said, “He is a prophet.”
- Acts 3:22-23 For Moses indeed said to the fathers, ‘The Lord God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him in all things whatever he says to you. It will be that every soul that will not listen to that prophet will be utterly destroyed from among the people.’
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Of the old Prophets.
Of the old Prophets.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 15 Others said, That it is Elias. And others…
15 Others said, That it is Elias. And others said, That it is a prophet, or as one of the prophets.
Ver. 15. Or as one of the prophets] Luke hath it, "One of the old prophets is risen again." Some great changes they looked for, now that the Messiah was expected, according to Hag 2:7.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Others said that it is Elias,.... This was the…
Others said that it is Elias,.... This was the opinion, either of many of the Jews, who expected that Elias the Tishbite would come in person, before the coming of the Messiah; and thought by the appearance and wonderful works of Jesus, that he was now come: or of Herod's courtiers, who said this to divert him from his notion of John the Baptist, which they might perceive was very distressing to him; though the former seems rather to be the sense:
others said, that it is a prophet: or "the prophet", that was to come, whom Moses had spoken of, and the Jews expected; this was the opinion of others of them: or
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as one of the prophets. The word "or", is left out in some copies; and so it is in the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, Arabic, Persic, and Ethiopic versions; and then the sense is, this new prophet lately raised up, is as one of the old prophets, Isaiah, Jeremiah, and others; or one of them had risen up.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain A prophet, as one of the prophets - Not…
A prophet, as one of the prophets - Not inferior to one of the ancient prophets.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 15. OR, as one of the prophets.] η,…
Verse 15. OR, as one of the prophets.] η, or, is omitted by ABCEGHKLMS-BHV, and one hundred others, Syriac, all the Arabic, all the Persic, Coptic, AEthiopic, Gothic, Slavonic, Vulgate, two Itala, Origen, Victor, and Theophylact. Bengel, Wetstein, and Griesbach leave it out of the text: the omission of it mends the sense much.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 6:15 The return of the prophet Elijah had been…
6:15 The return of the prophet Elijah had been prophesied in Mal 3:1; 4:5-6 (cp. Mark 9:11-13).
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