As for them, whether they hear or whether they forbear; for they are a rebellious house; yet they will know that a prophet has been among them.

Moreover He said to me: Son of man, receive into your heart all My Words that I speak to you, and hear with your ears.

And go! Come to the captives, to the children of your people, and speak to them and tell them, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear.

I still have many things to say to you, but you are not able to bear them now.

I fed you with milk and not with solid food; for until now you were not able, and even now you are still not able;

And His disciples asked Him, saying, Why then do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?

But I say to you that Elijah has come already, and they did not know him but did to him whatever they wished. Likewise the Son of Man is also about to suffer under them.

Behold, I am sending you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of Jehovah.

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

But I say to you that Elijah has also come, and they did to him whatever they wished, as it is written of him.

He will also 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 make ready a people prepared for the Lord.

And they asked him, What then? Are you Elijah? He said, I am not. Are you the Prophet? And he answered, No.

He said: I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness: Make straight the way of the Lord, as the prophet Isaiah said.

And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them; and I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the Word of God, who had not done homage to the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.