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Darknight613 said:
I may be stepping onto dangerous ground with this post, but since it's been brought up, hopefully you guys will find it interesting. And I don't think it's anything our resident Biblical scholars don't already know.

If I understand correctly, the New Testament speaks of Jesus being able to raise the dead, and of the miracle of being able to feed a large amount of people with a small amount of loaves of bread, yes?

The Jewish prophets Eliyahu (Elijah) and Elishah, both performed miracles of raising people from the dead, and Elishah also performed the miracle of the loaves and the fishes.




Nothing blasphemous there.

Because the Jews believed that Elijah had never died, they were always looking for his return. Each family would set a place for Elijah at the Passover supper. They believed that he came to each house and took a sip of wine from the glass prepared for him. The children of the family often would search outside for sight of him, and they would watch the glass closely to see if they could see a sip of wine disappear.


When Jesus began his mission of preaching, healing, raising people from the dead, and feeding large crowds of people, many people believed that he was Elijah come back to earth. And why not? Almost every miracle performed by Elijah was also performed by Jesus, or a variation was performed by Him, except on a grander scale.

Jesus himself had some to say regarding Elijah.

10 Then his followers asked him, “Why do the teachers of the law say that Elijah must come first?” 11 Jesus answered, “They are right to say that Elijah is coming and that he will make everything the way it should be. 12 But I tell you that Elijah has already come, and they did not recognize him. They did to him whatever they wanted to do. It will be the same with the Son of Man; those same people will make the Son of Man suffer.” 13 Then the followers understood that Jesus was talking about John the Baptist.
— Matthew 17:1-13 (NLT)

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