Some say] They report not the base speeches of tho Pharisees concerning him to provoke him; but tell him what the better sort of men think of him: and yet these thought too meanly of him also, v. 16, 20. John the Baptist] The Jews thought that prophets and eminent men either did rise again, or else their souls came into other bodies, and then they grew more famous then before. Hence it is that they think John was raised up again, as Herod did, chap. 14. 2. see Notes there. Yet this must be understood of those that knew not Christ till after Johns death; for others might know them both together, and, by consequence, that the one could not be the other. some Elias] Because foretold, that he should come as a forerunner to the Messias, Malachi 4:5-6. and others Jeremias] Because he was as eager against tho priests, and as much hated of them, as Jeremias was, and so might seem to have his spirit in him. Some think that the Jews expected Jeremiah to come again, to finde the ark which he had bidden, 2 Maccab. 2. 5. See Joseph. lib. 1. c. 17. one of the prophets] Or, one of the other prophet. for Jeremiah was a prophet also.