If you are willing to receive it, this is Elijah, who is to come.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Matthew 11:14 in context
Matthew 11:11–17
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Most certainly I tell you, among those who are born of women there has not arisen anyone greater than John the Baptizer; yet he who is least in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he.
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From the days of John the Baptizer until now, the Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.
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For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.
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If you are willing to receive it, this is Elijah, who is to come.
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He who has ears to hear, let him hear.
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“But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces, who call to their companions
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and say, ‘We played the flute for you, and you didn’t dance. We mourned for you, and you didn’t lament.’
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