Matthew 11:14 - Easy To Read Version And if you will believe the things the law and the prophets said, then you will believe that John is Elijah. {\cf2\super [140]} The law and the prophets said he would come. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And if ye will receive it, this is Elias, which was for to come. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) And if ye are willing to receive it, this is Elijah, that is to come. Common English Bible If you are willing to accept it, he is Elijah who is to come. Catholic Public Domain Version And if you are willing to accept it, he is the Elijah, who is to come. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And if you will receive it, he is Elias that is to come. |
But those people won’t listen to you. They won’t stop sinning against me. Why? Because they are a very rebellious people—they always turn against me! But you must say those things so they will know that there is a prophet {\cf2\super [13]} living among them.
The Lord All-Powerful says, “I am sending my messenger to prepare the way for me. Then suddenly, the Master you are looking for will come to his temple. {\cf2\super [16]} Yes, the messenger of the \{New\} Agreement that you want really is coming!
\{The Lord said,\} “Look, I will send Elijah the prophet to you. He will come before that great and terrible time of judgment from the Lord.
All the prophets {\cf2\super [139]} and the law \{of Moses\} spoke until the time John came. They told about the things that would happen.
John himself will go first before the Lord. John will be powerful like Elijah. {\cf2\super [7]} He will have the same spirit Elijah had. He will make peace between fathers and their children. Many people are not obeying God. John will bring those people back to the right way that people should think. He will make people ready for the \{coming of\} the Lord.”
“I have many more things to say to you. But those things are too much for you to accept now.
The teaching I gave you was like milk, not solid food. I did this because you were not ready for solid food. And even now you are not ready for solid food.
Then I saw some thrones and people sitting on them. These were the people who had been given the power to judge. And I saw the souls of those people who had been killed because \{they were faithful to\} the truth of Jesus and the message {\cf2\super [152]} from God. Those people did not worship the animal or his idol. {\cf2\super [153]} They did not receive the mark of the animal on their foreheads or on their hands. Those people became alive again and ruled with Christ for 1,000 years.