¹⁴ and if you are willing to accept it, he is Elijah who is to come.^(A)

¹¹ Then they asked him, “Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”

¹⁷ With the spirit and power of Elijah he will go before him, to turn the hearts of parents to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.”^(A)