¹⁴ And if you are willing to accept it,^[a] he is Elijah, who is to come.

¹² And I tell you that Elijah has already come. Yet they did not recognize him, but did to him whatever they wanted. In^[a] the same way, the Son of Man will suffer at their hands.” ¹³ Then the disciples understood that he was speaking to them about John the Baptist.