Matthew 17:10
About the book Matthew Trend of this verse since 2000
Bible text
His disciples asked him, saying, “Then why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”
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Statistics
- 5 Uses? Every use that covers this verse, also through a reference to its whole chapter.
- 5 Uses naming the verse? As in the Top 100: only uses that name this verse.
- #15,647 Rank? Rank 15,647 of 27,463 verses named in at least one use; tied verses share a rank.
- mapped Mapping? Position 23,835 in the sequence Protestant canon, 66 books (KJV numbering), New Testament
5 of the uses are a lower bound (repetitions not known exactly).
Persons in this verseExperimental
Experimental AI reading, not checked against sources.
- Elijah
- The disciplesgroup
- Jesusspoken of
- Scribesgroupinvoked
"Spoken of": the verse does not name the person but means them (a pronoun, a description, the addressed "you"). "Invoked": someone in the verse refers to the person as an authority, example, ancestor or memory; the person does not take part.
Who speaks in this verseExperimental
Author of this verseExperimental
- MatthewOnly in the reading of:conservativeearly Church
- Unknown authorOnly in the reading of:critical
- Unknown authoreditorOnly in the reading of:early Church
Topics of this verseExperimental
Central topics first, then the topics the verse touches in passing.
Genre of this verseExperimental
Confidence of the reading for this verse: high
Persons, speakers, authors, topics and genres: the AI reading of the Bible (experimental, not checked against sources); ids of the persons from STEPBible TIPNR (CC BY 4.0). Sources and credits
Numbering in the versification systems?
Bible editions number some verses differently. This verse has the following labels; labels that differ from the one shown above are marked.
Sources that cite this verse?
Uses?
5 approved public uses (data: Official), newest first.
- Date
- Jan 1, 1225 – Dec 31, 1274
- Cited as
- Matthew 17:10
- Source
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations, Commentary on Matthew
- Usage
- Analysis
- Author
- Thomas Aquinas
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Catholic
- Language
- Latin
- Venue
- Paris
- Venue
- Naples
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Jan 1, 1055 – Dec 31, 1126
- Cited as
- Matthew 17:10
- Source
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations, Commentary on Matthew
- Usage
- Analysis
- Author
- Theophylact of Ohrid
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Eastern Orthodox
- Language
- Ancient Greek (to 1453)
- Venue
- Ohrid
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Jan 1, 340 – Dec 31, 425
- Cited as
- Matthew 17:10
- Source
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations, Commentary on Matthew
- Usage
- Analysis
- Author
- Jerome
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Early Church
- Language
- Latin
- Venue
- Bethlehem
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Jan 1, 340 – Dec 31, 425
- Cited as
- Matthew 17:10
- Source
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations, Catena Aurea by Aquinas
- Usage
- Analysis
- Author
- Jerome
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Early Church
- Language
- Latin
- Venue
- Bethlehem
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Jan 1, 344 – Dec 31, 407
- Cited as
- Matthew 17:10-13
- Source
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations, Homily on the Gospel of Matthew
- Usage
- Teaching
- Author
- John Chrysostom
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Early Church
- Language
- Ancient Greek (to 1453)
- Venue
- Antakya
- Venue
- Istanbul
- Contributed by
- import-agent
How this was computed – counting rule: Every covered verse (baseline) / Named verses only; data: Official; as of Nov 15, 2026, 9:45 PM UTC
Neutral key: nrf1:MAT.017.010
- Metric
- Verse-level uses: every citation adds one for each verse it covers, under the counting rule. A citation of three verses adds 3. (definition)
- Counting rule
- Every covered verse (baseline) The baseline rule: every mention of every verse counts; a chapter or a range counts once for each verse it covers, and an unknown repetition counts as one. (definition) – uses; references to a whole chapter count for each of its verses
Named verses only Like the baseline rule, but only references that name verses count; whole chapters and books are left out. The Top 100 verses use it, so a chapter reference does not lift every verse of the chapter. (definition) – uses naming the verse (owner decision P5); the basis of the Top 100 and of the rank - Profile
- Official The official profile of every public number: only reviewed and approved entries whose evidence quality is high enough. (definition) – reviewed and approved data only
- Epoch
- 192, published Nov 15, 2026, 9:45 PM UTC (provisional)
- Sequence
- Protestant canon, 66 books (KJV numbering)
prot66.nrf, mapping release R9 - Rank
- As in the Top 100: uses naming the verse, highest first, over the verses named at least once; tied verses share a rank.
- Uses
- Approved public uses of the data shown, with at least one cited passage on these verses. The list follows the current approved data; the numbers are those of the epoch.
Live numbers are recomputed every 15 minutes and are provisional until a data release is frozen. The Bible text is shown for reading only; it is never counted. How we count Glossary