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Mt 16:14 King James And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
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 14:1-2).

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.
 
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15 Others said, That it is Elias. And others said, That it is a prophet, or as one of the prophets.
8 And of some, that Elias had appeared; and of others, that one of the old prophets was risen again.
15 Others said, That it is Elias. And others said, That it is a prophet, or as one of the prophets.
1 At that time Herod the tetrarch heard of the fame of Jesus,
2 And said unto his servants, This is John the Baptist; he is risen from the dead; and therefore mighty works do shew forth themselves in him.