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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Matthew 16:14 - 16:14
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And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist - risen from the dead. So that Herod Antipas was not singular in his surmise (Mat 14:1, Mat 14:2).
some, Elias - (Compare Mar 6:15).
and others, Jeremias - Was this theory suggested by a supposed resemblance between the “Man of Sorrows” and “the weeping prophet?”
or one of the prophets - or, as Luke (Luk 9:8) expresses it, “that one of the old prophets is risen again.” In another report of the popular opinions which Mark (Mar 6:15) gives us, it is thus expressed, “That it is a prophet [or], as one of the prophets”: in other words, That He was a prophetical person, resembling those of old.