Matthew 24:5
For many will come in my name saying, ‘I am the Christ.’ 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
4And answering, Jesus said to them: “Pay attention, lest someone lead you astray.
Cross References
Jeremiah 23:21“I did not send these prophets, yet they hurry forward. I was not speaking to them, yet they were prophesying.
Matthew 24:11And many false prophets will arise, and they will lead many astray.
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 8:9Therefore, there was great gladness in that city. Now there was a certain man named Simon, who formerly had been a magician in that city, seducing the people of Samaria, claiming himself to be someone great.
Revelation 13:8And all who inhabit the earth worshiped the beast, those whose names have not been written, from the origin of the world, in the Book of Life of the Lamb who was slain.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 24:5-32
Awful Predictions. 4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. 5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. 6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. 7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. 8 All these are the beginning of sorrows. 9 Then shall… Read the whole commentary →