Luke 21:8

Who said: Take heed you be not seduced; for many will come in my name, saying, I am he; and the time is at hand: go ye not therefore after them.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and the time draweth near: go ye not therefore after them.

In Context

7And they asked him, saying: Master, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign when they shall begin to come to pass?

9And when you shall hear of wars and seditions, be not terrified: these things must first come to pass; but the end is not yet presently.

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Cross References

Matthew 3:2And saying: Do penance: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

Matthew 24:4And Jesus answering, said to them: Take heed that no man seduce you:

Matthew 24:23Then if any man shall say to you: Lo here is Christ, or there, do not believe him.

Mark 13:21And then if any man shall say to you, Lo, here is Christ; lo, he is here: do not believe.

John 5:43I am come in the name of my Father, and you receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him you will receive.

Acts 5:36For before these days rose up Theodas, affirming himself to be somebody, to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves: who was slain; and all that believed him were scattered, and brought to nothing.

Matthew Henry on Luke 21:6-20

Judgments Predicted. 5 And as some spake of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts, he said, 6 As for these things which ye behold, the days will come, in the which there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down. 7 And they asked him, saying, Master, but when shall these things be? and what sign will there be when these things shall come to pass? 8 And he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and the time… Read the whole commentary →

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