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23 (A)Now I am sending to you
    Elijah[a] the prophet,
Before the day of the Lord comes,
    the great and terrible day;
24 He will turn the heart of fathers to their sons,
    and the heart of sons to their fathers,
Lest I come and strike
    the land with utter destruction.

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  1. 3:23 Elijah: taken up in a whirlwind, according to 2 Kgs 2:11. Here his return seems to be foretold. A Jewish tradition interpreted this literally; the gospels saw Elijah in the person of John the Baptist (Mt 11:13–14; 17:10–13; Mk 9:9–13).
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10 [a](A)Then the disciples asked him, “Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”

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  1. 17:10 See notes on Mt 3:4; 16:14.

10 The disciples asked him, “Why then do the teachers of the law say that Elijah must come first?”

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10 And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come?

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