Parallel Verses

American Standard Version

And they asked him, saying, How is it that the scribes say that Elijah must first come?

New American Standard Bible

They asked Him, saying, “Why is it that the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”

King James Version

And they asked him, saying, Why say the scribes that Elias must first come?

Holman Bible

Then they began to question Him, “Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”

International Standard Version

So they asked him, "Don't the scribes say that Elijah must come first?"

A Conservative Version

And they questioned him, saying, The scholars say that Elijah must first come.

Amplified

They asked Him, saying, “Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first [before the Messiah comes]?”

An Understandable Version

Then His disciples asked Him, "Why is it, [since you are obviously the Messiah], that the experts in the law of Moses say that Elijah must come first?"

Anderson New Testament

And they asked him, saying: Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?

Bible in Basic English

And they put a question to him, saying, Why do the scribes say that Elijah has to come first?

Common New Testament

And they asked him, "Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?"

Daniel Mace New Testament

At length they started this question, why do the Scribes say, that Elias must first come?

Darby Translation

And they asked him saying, Why do the scribes say that Elias must first have come?

Godbey New Testament

And they asked Him, saying, that the scribes say, that it behooves Elijah first to come.

Goodspeed New Testament

And they asked him, "Why do the scribes say that Elijah has to come first?"

John Wesley New Testament

And they asked him, saying, Why say the scribes, that Elijah must come first?

Julia Smith Translation

And having asked him, saying, That the scribes say that Elias must first come.

King James 2000

And they asked him, saying, Why say the scribes that Elijah must first come?

Lexham Expanded Bible

And they asked him, saying, "{Why do} the scribes say that Elijah must come first?"

Modern King James verseion

And they asked Him, saying, Why do the scribes say that Elijah must first come?

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And they asked him, saying, "Why then Say the scribes, that Elijah must first come?"

Moffatt New Testament

So they put this question to him, "Why do the [Pharisees and] scribes say that Elijah has to come first?"

Montgomery New Testament

So they asked him, "How is it that the Scribes say that Elijah must first come?"

NET Bible

Then they asked him, "Why do the experts in the law say that Elijah must come first?"

New Heart English Bible

They asked him, saying, "Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?"

Noyes New Testament

And they asked him, saying, How is it that the Pharisees and scribes say that Elijah must come first?

Sawyer New Testament

And they asked him, saying, Why do the scribes say that Elijah must first come?

The Emphasized Bible

And they began to question him, saying - The Scribes, say, that, Elijah, must needs come, first?

Thomas Haweis New Testament

And they asked him, saying, Why say the scribes, that Elias must come first?

Twentieth Century New Testament

"How is it," they asked Jesus, "that our Teachers of the Law say that Elijah has to come first?"

Webster

And they asked him, saying, Why say the scribes that Elijah must first come?

Weymouth New Testament

They also asked Him, "How is it that the Scribes say that Elijah must first come?"

Williams New Testament

Then they asked Him, "Why do the scribes say that Elijah has to come first?"

World English Bible

They asked him, saying, "Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?"

Worrell New Testament

And they were asking Him, saying, "How is it that the scribes say that Elijah must first come?"

Worsley New Testament

Then they asked Him, saying, Why do the scribes say, that Elias must come first?

Youngs Literal Translation

And they were questioning him, saying, that the scribes say that Elijah it behoveth to come first.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And

and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

ἐπερωτάω 
Eperotao 
Usage: 55

him

Usage: 0

λέγω 
Lego 
Usage: 1045

Why
ὅτι 
Hoti 
Usage: 764

say
λέγω 
Lego 
Usage: 1045

the scribes
γραμματεύς 
Grammateus 
Usage: 49

ὅτι 
Hoti 
Usage: 764

Ἡλίας 
helias 
Usage: 24

δεῖ 
Dei 
Usage: 72

πρῶτον 
Proton 
first, at the first Trans, first of all,
Usage: 40

Context Readings

The Transfiguration

10 And they kept the saying, questioning among themselves what the rising again from the dead should mean. 11 And they asked him, saying, How is it that the scribes say that Elijah must first come? 12 And he said unto them, Elijah indeed cometh first, and restoreth all things: and how is it written of the Son of man, that he should suffer many things and be set at nought?


Cross References

Matthew 11:14

And if ye are willing to receive it, this is Elijah, that is to come.

Malachi 4:5

Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of Jehovah come.

Mark 9:4

And there appeared unto them Elijah with Moses: and they were talking with Jesus.

Malachi 3:1

Behold, I send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom ye desire, behold, he cometh, saith Jehovah of hosts.

Matthew 17:10-11

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

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