Mark 9:12

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Summary

And he answered and told them, Elias verily cometh first, and restoreth all things; and how it is written of the Son of man, that he must suffer many things, and be set at nought.

Restoreth

He must

Daniel 9:24

Zechariah 13:7

Set

Bible References

Restoreth

As it is written in Isaiah the prophet, "Look, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way,

A voice cries out, "In the wilderness clear a way for the Lord; construct in the desert a road for our God.

He will encourage fathers and their children to return to me, so that I will not come and strike the earth with judgment."

In those days John the Baptist came into the wilderness of Judea proclaiming,

Now when John heard in prison about the deeds Christ had done, he sent his disciples to ask a question:

He will turn many of the people of Israel to the Lord their God.

during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John the son of Zechariah in the wilderness.

A man came, sent from God, whose name was John.

John replied, "No one can receive anything unless it has been given to him from heaven.

He must

"Seventy weeks have been determined concerning your people and your holy city to put an end to rebellion, to bring sin to completion, to atone for iniquity, to bring in perpetual righteousness, to seal up the prophetic vision, and to anoint a most holy place.

"Awake, sword, against my shepherd, against the man who is my associate," says the Lord who rules over all. Strike the shepherd that the flock may be scattered; I will turn my hand against the insignificant ones.

Set

But I am a worm, not a man; people insult me and despise me.

Those who sit at the city gate gossip about me; drunkards mock me in their songs.

Rise up, O God! Defend your honor! Remember how fools insult you all day long!

This is what the Lord, the protector of Israel, their Holy One, says to the one who is despised and rejected by nations, a servant of rulers: "Kings will see and rise in respect, princes will bow down, because of the faithful Lord, the Holy One of Israel who has chosen you."

I offered my back to those who attacked, my jaws to those who tore out my beard; I did not hide my face from insults and spitting.

(just as many were horrified by the sight of you) he was so disfigured he no longer looked like a man;

Who would have believed what we just heard? When was the Lord's power revealed through him?

The Lord then said to me, "Throw to the potter that exorbitant sum at which they valued me!" So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them to the potter at the temple of the Lord.

Even Herod with his soldiers treated him with contempt and mocked him. Then, dressing him in elegant clothes, Herod sent him back to Pilate.

but emptied himself by taking on the form of a slave, by looking like other men, and by sharing in human nature.