Matthew 11:14 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

¹⁴ And if you are willing to accept [this truth], this person [i.e., John] fulfills [the prophecy of] the coming of Elijah [See Mal. 4:5-6].

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁴ And if ye will receive it, this is Elias, which was for to come.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁴ And if you are willing to receive and accept it, John himself is Elijah who was to come [before the kingdom]. [Mal. 4:5.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁴ And if ye are willing to receive it, this is Elijah, that is to come.

Common English Bible

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

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ And if you are willing to accept it, he is the Elijah, who is to come.

Matthew 11:14 Cross References

Luke 1:17

He will go on ahead of the Messiah [See verse 76], in the spirit and power of Elijah, to rekindle the affections of fathers for their children, and [to influence] disobedient people to live wisely like righteous people. And he will prepare the people to be ready for [the coming of] the Lord.”

1 Corinthians 3:2

For I fed you with milk, not with solid food [i.e., with basic fundamentals instead of more advanced teaching. See Heb. 5:12-13] because you were not able to absorb it,

John 16:12

“I still have many things to tell you, but you cannot bear [to hear] them at present.

Revelation 20:4

Then I saw thrones, with individuals sitting on them who had been given [authority] to judge. And I [also] saw the souls of those who had been decapitated because they had testified about Jesus and [had proclaimed] the message of God. [They are] the ones who had refused to worship the beast or his statue, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And these ones lived again and ruled with Christ for a thousand years.

Matthew 11:13

For all of the prophets and the Law of Moses prophesied [of this kingdom] up until the time of John.