Matthew 24:5
for, many will take my name, and come saying ‘I am the Christ,’ and will lead many astray.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
In Context
4Jesus replied to them, “See that no one leads you astray;
Cross References
Matthew 24:11Many false prophets, also, will appear and lead many astray;
John 5:43I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not receive me; if another comes in his own name, you will receive him.
Acts 8:9There was staying in the city a man named Simon, who had been practicing magic there and mystifying the Samaritan people, giving himself out to be some great being.
Revelation 13:8All who are living on earth will worship it – all whose names have not been written in the Lamb’s book of life, the Lamb that has been sacrificed from the foundation 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 →