John 1:21 Cross References - Riverside

²¹ They asked him, "What then? Are you Elijah?" He said, "I am not." "Are you the prophet?" He answered, "No."

⁹ But why did you go out? To see a prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet. ¹⁰ This is the one of whom it was written, 'Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, who will prepare thy way before thee.' ¹¹ I tell you truly there has not arisen among those born of women a greater than John the Baptist. But any inferior in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

¹⁴ If you are willing to believe it, he is Elijah who was to come.

¹⁴ They said, "Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; others Jeremiah or some one of the prophets."

¹⁰ The disciples asked him, "Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?" ¹¹ He answered, "Elijah does come and restore all things. ¹² But I tell you Elijah has already come and they did not recognize him, but did to him whatever they chose. Just so the Son of Man is about to suffer at their hands."

¹⁷ He will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous, to make ready for the Lord a people prepared for him."

²⁵ They asked him, "Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ nor Elijah nor the prophet?"

⁴⁰ Some from the crowd, on hearing these words, said, "This man is truly the prophet."