Chapter LVII.—Of the Harmony Between Matthew and Mark in the Accounts Given of the Occasion on Which He Spoke to the Disciples Concerning the Coming of Elias.

115. Matthew goes on thus: “And His disciples asked Him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come? And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come and restore all things. But I say unto you, that Elias is come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed. Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them. Then the disciples understood that He spake unto them of John the Baptist.” 603    Matt. xvii. 10–13. This same passage is given also by Mark, who keeps also the same order; and although he exhibits some diversity of expression, he makes no departure from a truthful representation of the same sense.604    Mark ix. 10–12. He has not, however, added the statement, that the disciples understood that the Lord had referred to John the Baptist in saying that Elias was come already.

CAPUT LVII. Ubi de adventu Eliae locutus est eis, quae sit convenientia inter Matthaeum et Marcum.

115. Sequitur Matthaeus: Et interrogaverunt eum discipuli dicentes: Quid ergo Scribae dicunt quod Eliam oporteat primum venire? At ille respondens ait eis: Elias quidem venturus est, et restituet omnia: dico autem vobis quia Elias jam venit, et non cognoverunt eum, 1134 sed fecerunt in eo quaecumque voluerunt; sic et Filius hominis passurus est ab eis. Tunc intellexerunt discipuli quia de Joanne Baptista dixisset eis (Matth. XVII, 10-13). Hoc idem Marcus, etiam hunc ordinem servans, commemoravit et in nonnulla diversitate verborum, nusquam tamen ab ejusdem sententiae veritate discessit (Marc. IX, 10-12): sed ipse non addidit, intellexisse discipulos quod Joannem Dominus significasset, dicendo quod Elias jam venerit.