Mark 9:13

But I say unto you that Elijah is come, and they have also done unto him whatsoever they would, even as it is written of him.

Mark omitted the statement (Matthew 17:13) that the apostles then understood that Jesus spake of John the Baptist. Thus, the fallacious arguments of the scribes were exposed and refuted. Jesus even went further here and indicated that the death of John the Baptist was a prophecy of what would happen to himself. "As Elijah's coming was a heralding of the Lord's coming, so Elijah's rejection was a warning of the Lord's rejection."[13] All of these things were prophesied in Scripture.