And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elijah must first come?
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Theophylact of Ochrid
AD 1107
The scribes were deceiving the people, saying that Jesus was not the Christ, for if He were, Elijah would first have come. But they did not know that there are two comings of Christ, the Forerunner of the first being John, and of the second, Elijah. Christ then explains this to the disciples. Listen:
