2 Thessalonians 2:9
whose coming is according to the working of Satan in all power and signs and wonders of falsehood,
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 8:7And the scribes did so with their sorceries, and brought up frogs on the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 13:1If there arise among you a prophet, or one that dreameth dreams, and he give thee a sign or a wonder,
Matthew 24:24For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall give great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect.
Luke 11:25And having come, he finds it swept and adorned.
John 8:41Ye do the works of your father. They said [therefore] to him, We are not born of fornication; we have one father, God.
Acts 8:9But a certain man, by name Simon, had been before in the city, using magic arts, and astonishing the nation of Samaria, saying that himself was some great one.
Matthew Henry on 2 Thessalonians 2:2-13
Cautions against False Alarm. ( a. d. 52.) 1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, 2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. 3 Let no man deceive you by any means— From these words it appears that some among the Thessalonians had mistaken the apostle's meaning, in what he had written in his former epistle about the coming of Christ, by… Read the whole commentary →