Matthew 24:5
For many will come in my name saying, I am Christ: and they will seduce many.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
In Context
4And Jesus answering, said to them: Take heed that no man seduce you:
Cross References
Jeremiah 23:21I did not send prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.
Matthew 24:11And many false prophets shall rise, and shall seduce many.
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 8:9There was therefore great joy in that city. Now there was a certain man named Simon, who before had been a magician in that city, seducing the people of Samaria, giving out that he was some great one:
Revelation 13:8And all the dwell upon the earth adored him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb, which was slain from the beginning of the world.
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 →