¹¹ They asked Him, saying, “Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first [before the Messiah comes]?”^{(A) 12} He answered them, “Elijah does come first and restores and reestablishes all things. And yet how is it written of the Son of Man that He will suffer many things [grief and physical distress] and be treated with contempt [utterly despised and rejected]?^{(B) 13} But I say to you that Elijah has in fact come [already], and they ^[a]did to him whatever they wished, just as it is written [in Scripture] of him.”