For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.

And if you are willing to receive it, he is Elijah, the [one] who is about to come.

Though desiring to kill him, he feared the crowd, because they counted him as a prophet.

But I say to you that Elijah has come already, and they did not recognize him, but did to him whatever they desired. Thus also the Son of Man is about to suffer by them."

Then the disciples understood that He spoke to them of John the Baptist.

But Jesus answered and said to them, "I also will ask you one thing, which if you tell Me, I likewise will tell you by what authority I do these things:

"But if we should say, 'From men,' we fear the crowd, for all consider John as a prophet."

And they asked Him, saying, "Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?"

But I say to you that indeed Elijah has come, and they did to him whatever they wished, just as it is written concerning him."

For he shall be great before the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink. He will also be filled with the Holy Spirit, while still in his mother's womb.

And he himself 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 righteous, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord."