Matthew 24:5
For many shall come in my name, and shall say, I am Christ (or I am the Messiah); and they shall deceive many.
Wycliffe Modern Spelling
In The King James Version
For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
In Context
4And Jesus answered, and said to them, Look ye [or See ye], that no man deceive you.
Cross References
Jeremiah 23:21I sent not the prophets, and they ran; I spake not to them, and they prophesied.
Matthew 24:11And many false prophets shall rise, and deceive many.
John 5:43I came in the name of my Father, and ye took not me (or but ye did not receive me). If another come in his own name, ye shall receive him.
Acts 8:9But there was a man in that city, whose name was Simon, a witch, that had deceived the folk of Samaria (or who had deceived the Samaritan people), saying, that himself was some great man.
Revelation 13:8And all men worshipped it, that dwell in earth, whose names be not written in the book of life of the lamb, that was slain from the beginning of the world. (And everyone shall worship it, who live on the earth, whose names be not written in the Lamb’s Book of Life, from the creation of the world, yea, the Lamb who was killed.)
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 →