¹⁵ But others said, “It is Elijah.” And others said, “It is a prophet, like one of the prophets of old.”^(A)

¹¹ The crowds were saying, “This is the prophet Jesus from Nazareth in Galilee.”^(A)

²⁸ And they answered him, “John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; and still others, one of the prophets.”^(A)

¹⁴ And they said, “Some say John the Baptist but others Elijah and still others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.”^(A)

⁵ See, I will send you the prophet Elijah before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes.^(A)

²² Moses said, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you from your own people a prophet like me. You must listen to whatever he tells you.^{(A) 23} And it will be that everyone who does not listen to that prophet will be utterly rooted out of the people.’

¹⁷ So they said again to the blind man, “What do you say about him? It was your eyes he opened.” He said, “He is a prophet.”^(A)

Division among the People

⁴⁰ When they heard these words, some in the crowd said, “This is really the prophet.”

¹⁴ When the people saw the sign that he had done, they began to say, “This is indeed the prophet who is to come into the world.”^(A)

²⁵ They asked him, “Why, then, are you baptizing if you are neither the Messiah,^[a] nor Elijah, nor the prophet?”