and, if you are ready to accept the idea, he is himself Elijah who was to come.

They said, "Some say John the Baptist, others Elijah, and still others Jeremiah or one of the prophets."

And Moses and Elijah appeared to them, talking with him.

And Peter spoke, and said to Jesus, "Master, how good it is that we are here! If you wish, I will make three huts here, one for you, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah."

The disciples asked him, "Then why do the scribes say that Elijah has to come first?"

He answered, "Elijah does come and is to reform everything,

but I tell you, Elijah has come already, and they would not recognize him, but treated him just as they pleased. It is in just that way that the Son of Man is going to be treated by them!"

Some of the bystanders when they heard it said, "The man is calling for Elijah!"

But the others said, "Let us see whether Elijah will come to save him."

But others said he was Elijah, and still others that he was a prophet of the old prophetic kind.

They said to him, "John the Baptist; others say Elijah, and others that you are one of the prophets."

And Elijah appeared to them, accompanied by Moses, and they talked with Jesus.

Then Peter spoke, and said to Jesus, "Master, how good it is that we are here! Let us put up three huts, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah."

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

He said to them, "Elijah does come first, and reforms everything, and does not the Scripture say of the Son of Man that he will suffer much and be refused?

Why, I tell you, not only has Elijah come, but people have treated him just as they pleased, as the Scripture says about him."

Some of the bystanders, when they heard it, said, "See! He is calling for Elijah!"

One man ran off and soaked a sponge in common wine, and put it on the end of a stick and held it up to him to drink, saying, "Let us see whether Elijah does come to take him down!"

He will go before him with the spirit and the power of Elijah, to reconcile fathers to their children, and to bring the disobedient back to the wisdom of upright men, to make a people perfectly ready for the Lord."

But, I tell you, there were plenty of widows in Israel in Elijah's time, when the sky was closed for three years and a half, and there was a great famine all over the land,

and Elijah was not sent to one of them, but to a widow at Zarephath in Sidon.

and some that Elijah had appeared, and others that one of the ancient prophets had come back to life.

They answered, "John the Baptist, though others say Elijah, and others that one of the old prophets has come back to life."

And two men were talking with him. They were Moses and Elijah,

Just as they were parting from him, Peter said to Jesus, "Master, how good it is that we are here! Let us put up three huts, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah!" For he did not know what he was saying.

God has not repudiated his people, which he had marked out from the first. Do you not know what the Scripture says in speaking of Elijah, how he appealed to God against Israel?

Elijah was a man like us, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and for three years and six months there was no rain in the land.