Mark 13:6
For many will come in my name, saying, ‘For I am he,’ and they will lead many astray.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
In Context
5And Jesus, answering, began to say to them: “See to it that no one leads you astray.
Cross References
Jeremiah 14:14And the Lord said to me: “The prophets prophesy falsely in my name. I did not send them, and I did not instruct them, and I have not spoken to them. They prophesy to you a lying vision, and a divination, and a fraud, and a seduction from their own heart.
Matthew 24:5For many will come in my name saying, ‘I am the Christ.’ And they will lead many astray.
Matthew 24:23Then if anyone will have said to you, ‘Behold, here is the Christ,’ or ‘he is there,’ do not be willing to believe it.
John 5:43I have come in the name of my Father, and you do not accept me. If another will arrive in his own name, him you will accept.
Acts 5:36For before these days, Theudas stepped forward, asserting himself to be someone, and a number of men, about four hundred, joined with him. But he was killed, and all who believed in him were scattered, and they were reduced to nothing.
Matthew Henry on Mark 13:6-14
Great Afflictions Foretold. 5 And Jesus answering them began to say, Take heed lest any man deceive you: 6 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. 7 And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet. 8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows. 9… Read the whole commentary →