Anakalypsis / Unveiling the Word

Matthew 11:14

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

KJV

καὶ εἰ θέλετε δέξασθαι, αὐτός ἐστιν Ἡλείας ὁ μέλλων ἔρχεσθαι.

Greek NT

et si vultis recipere, ipse est Elias, qui venturus est.

Vulgate

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

ASV

And if you will receive it, he is Elias that is to come.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

10 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
δέχομαι
dechomai
verb · 56×
εἰ
ei
conditional · 491×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
θέλω
thelo
verb · 208×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
μέλλω
mello
verb · 110×
ἔρχομαι
erchomai
verb · 627×
Ἡλίας
elias
noun · 29×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×

Intertextual echoes

This verse quotes or alludes to 1 earlier text.

  • Mal 4:5 · paraphrase
    "Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:"
    Malachi: Elijah will come — Jesus identifies John the Baptist

Typology

Historic Christian voices

7 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§719John the Baptist is "more than a prophet."94 In him, the Holy Spirit concludes his speaking through the prophets. John completes the cycle of prophets begun by Elijah.95 He proclaims the imminence of the consolation of Israel; he is the "voice" of the Consoler who is coming.96 As the Spirit of truth will also do, John "came to bear witness to the light."97 In John's sight, the …
2. And not for this only does He call him Elias everywhere, but to signify His perfect agreement with the Old Testament, and that this advent too is according to prophecy. Wherefore also He adds again, He came, and they knew him not, but have done unto him all things whatsoever they listed. Matthew 17:12 What means, all things whatsoever they listed? They cast him into prison, …
1 And the Word was with God, and the Word was God. In the preceding section, my revered brother Ambrosius, brother formed according to the Gospel, we have discussed, as far as is at present in our power, what the Gospel is, and what is the beginning in which the Word was, and what the Word is which was in the beginning. We now come to consider the next point in the work before …
1. The Work is Taken Up After a Violent Interruption, Which Has Driven the Writer from Alexandria. He Addresses Himself to It Again, with Thanks for His Deliverance, and Prayer for Guidance. When a house is being built which is to be made as strong as possible, the building takes place in fine weather and in calm, so that nothing may hinder the structure from acquiring the need…
1. The Parable of the Tares: the House of Jesus. Then He left the multitudes and went into His house, and His disciples came unto Him saying, Declare to us the parable of the tares of the field. Matthew 13:36 When Jesus then is with the multitudes, He is not in His house, for the multitudes are outside of the house, and it is an act which springs from His love of men to leave t…
1. Concerning Those Who Asked Him to Show Them a Sign from Heaven. And the Sadducees and Pharisees came, and tempting Him kept asking Him to show them a sign from heaven. Matthew 16:1 The Sadducees and Pharisees who disagreed with each other in regard to the most essential truths, — for the Pharisees champion the doctrine of the resurrection of the dead, hoping that there will …

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 3:2 — I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.
  • Ezek 2:5 — And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they are a rebellious house,) yet shall know that there hath been a prophet among them.
  • Ezek 3:10 — Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak unto thee receive in thine heart, and hear with thine ears.
  • John 1:21 — And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not. Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No.
  • John 1:21 — And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not. Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No.
  • John 16:12 — I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.
  • Luke 1:17 — And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the L
  • Luke 1:17 — And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the L
  • Mal 4:5 — Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
  • Mark 9:11 — And they asked him, saying, Why say the scribes that Elias must first come?
  • Mark 9:11 — And they asked him, saying, Why say the scribes that Elias must first come?
  • Mark 9:13 — But I say unto you, That Elias is indeed come, and they have done unto him whatsoever they listed, as it is written of him.
  • Matt 17:10 — And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come?
  • Matt 17:10 — And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come?
  • Matt 17:13 — Then the disciples understood that he spake unto them of John the Baptist.