and they said, `Some, John the Baptist, and others, Elijah, and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.'
Words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, of the priests who `are' in Anathoth, in the land of Benjamin,
Lo, I am sending to you Elijah the prophet, Before the coming of the day of Jehovah, The great and the fearful.
and said to his servants, `This is John the Baptist, he did rise from the dead, and because of this the mighty energies are working in him.'
He saith to them, `And ye -- who do ye say me to be?'
And his disciples questioned him, saying, `Why then do the scribes say that Elijah it behoveth to come first?'
And in those days cometh John the Baptist, proclaiming in the wilderness of Judea,
Others said -- `It is Elijah,' and others said -- `It is a prophet, or as one of the prophets.'
And they answered, `John the Baptist, and others Elijah, but others one of the prophets.'
and by certain, that Elijah did appear, and by others, that a prophet, one of the ancients, was risen;
And they questioned him, `What then? Elijah art thou?' and he saith, `I am not.' -- `The prophet art thou?' and he answered, `No.'
and there was much murmuring about him among the multitudes, some indeed said -- `He is good;' and others said, `No, but he leadeth astray the multitude;'
They said to the blind man again, `Thou -- what dost thou say of him -- that he opened thine eyes?'