And answering, He said to them, Indeed, Elijah coming first restores all things. And how it has been written concerning the Son of Man that He should suffer many things and be utterly despised?
And he will go ahead before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah “to turn the hearts of fathers to their children,” and disobedient ones to the wisdom of the just, to make ready a people having been prepared for the Lord. Mal. 4:5, 6
Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed the ones before proclaiming concerning the coming of the Just One, of whom you now have become betrayers and murderers,