Matthew 17:11–12
Christ shows that the Jews are greatly ignorant of the scriptures, from which they did not recognize John — that is, the first Elijah, “who prepared the way of the Lord.” (Matthew 17:11–12) Not knowing him and killing the forerunner of Christ, they also failed to recognize the Lord himself and killed him.
Greek
∆είκνυσιν ὁ Χριστὸς τοὺς Ἰουδαίους λίαν ἀγνοοῦντας τὰς γραφάς, ἐξ ὧν τὸν Ἰωάννην οὐκ ἔγνωσαν, τοῦτ' ἔστιν τὸν πρῶτον Ἠλίαν τὸν "τὴν ὁδὸν ἑτοιμάσαντα τοῦ κυρίου", ὃν ἀγνοοῦντες καὶ ἀποκτείναντες τὸν τοῦ Χριστοῦ πρόδρομον καὶ αὐτὸν ἠγνόησαν τὸν κύριον καὶ ἀπέ κτειναν αὐτόν.
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Catena fragments on Matthew (CPG 5206). Contents follow Matthew chapter and verse. Edition fragment numbers stay in About this text and under each passage.
English follows the named copy-text (Aegean/khazarzar Migne PG 72 extract). Other prints were checked as noted; no silent merge of recensions.
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- Copy-text Migne PG 72 Commentarii in Matthaeum (Aegean Digital Patrologia / khazarzar) (Greek · CPG 5206 catena fragments (290 parsed heads))
- Checked print matia.gr mirror of same Aegean extract (Greek · Byte-identical PDF; integrity check only)
- Checked print Internet Archive PG 72 volume OCR (bim … 1859_72) (Greek (OCR damaged) · Locus confirmation only; not used as reading text)
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