Elijah

Here is a mystery:

After Elijah appears with Moses at the transfiguration Jesus states:
"To be sure, Elijah does come first, and restores all things. Why then is it written that the Son of Man must suffer much and be rejected? ¹But I tell you, Elijah has come, and they have done to him everything they wished, just as it is written about him."
After all things are restored in Elijah, He must suffer... then the mystery deepens for Jesus refers not to Elijah in the transfiguration but says John the Baptist is Elijah... the mystery goes further for John the Baptist says he is not Elijah!

There must be some uncharted depths in this one whose spirit is prophesied with turn the hearts of children to fathers and fathers to children in the last verse of the Old Testament, And whose Spirit in John the Baptist restores all in preparing the way of the Lord.

What concerns me here though is the embrace of the contradiction by Jesus when speaking of restoration of all prior to suffering he asks how can this be. Then the further contradiction in Jesus and John the Baptist disagreeing about the identity of John the Baptist.

One has asserted that Jesus being Jesus was correct while John simply did not know the fullness of who he was. Our subconscious depths may contain truths of who we are which reach beyond what we may admit. There are many facets and aspects to both God 's person and ours. Wisdom herself is manifold.