Almost eight hundred years later, Jesus bade Peter, James, and John to climb a mountain. The Gospel according to Matthew relates that Jesus "was transfigured before them; and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light. And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him."
Jesus asks the apostles not to speak of this vision until the Son of Man be risen from the dead, but they reply that this will happen only when Elijah returns.
Matthew 17:10--13 tells the rest of the story:
Zd his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come?
"And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things. But I say unto you, That Elias is come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed.
"Then the disciples understood that he spake unto them of John the Baptist."
MARIA CONCEIVED WITHOUT SIN, PRAY FOR US WHO call on Thee. Amen.