Mark 8:28

they answered In this answer we have the explanation, which common rumour, in His own days, offered of His marvellous works. (1) Some, like the guilty Herod, said He was John the Baptist risen from the dead; (2) others that He was Elijah, who, like Enoch, had never died, but was taken up bodily to heaven and had now returned as Malachi predicted (Mark 4:5); (3) others that He was Jeremiah (Matthew 16:14), who was expected to inaugurate the reign of the Messiah; (4) others again that He was one of the "old prophets" (Luke 9:19). But they did not add that any regarded Him as the Messiah.