Daily Discovery Bible Study

9 As they descended the mountain Jesus gave them strict instructions. “Don't tell anybody what you saw until the Son of man has risen from the dead,” he told them.

10 “So why do the religious teachers say that Elijah has to come first?” his disciples asked.

11 “It's true that Elijah comes to put everything in place,” Jesus replied,12 “but I tell you that Elijah has already come and yet people didn't recognize who he was. They did whatever they felt like to him. In the same way the Son of man will also suffer at their hands.”13 Then the disciples realized that Jesus was referring to John the Baptist.

Matthew 17: 9-13