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John 1:21

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

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John 1:21. And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias ?

"Art thou Elijah come back to earth?"

John 1:21. And he saith, I am not.

For, though indeed he was the true spiritual Elijah who was to come as the forerunner of the Messiah, yet, in the sense in which they asked the question, the only truthful answer was, "I am not."

John 1:21. Art thou that prophet ?

The long-expected prophet foretold by Moses?

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