Matthew 24:23
Good News Translation
"Then, if anyone says to you, 'Look, here is the Messiah!' or 'There he is!'--do not believe it.

New Revised Standard Version
Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look! Here is the Messiah!’ or ‘There he is!’—do not believe it.

Contemporary English Version
Someone may say, "Here is the Messiah!" or "There he is!" But don't believe it.

New American Bible
If anyone says to you then, ‘Look, here is the Messiah!’ or, ‘There he is!’ do not believe it.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then if any man shall say to you, Lo here is Christ, or there: do not believe him.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Deuteronomy 13:1-3 If there rise in the midst of thee a prophet or one that saith he hath dreamed a dream, and he foretell a sign and a wonder, . . .

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

Luke 17:23,24 And they will say to you: See here, and see there. Go ye not after, nor follow them. . . .

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.

John 5:43 I 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.

Context
The Abomination of Desolation
22And unless those days had been shortened, no flesh should be saved: but for the sake of the elect those days shall be shortened. 23Then if any man shall say to you, Lo here is Christ, or there: do not believe him. 24For there shall arise false Christs and false prophets and shall shew great signs and wonders, insomuch as to deceive (if possible) even the elect.…
Cross References
Luke 17:23
And they will say to you: See here, and see there. Go ye not after, nor follow them.

Acts 27:11
But the centurion believed the pilot and the master of the ship, more than those things which were said by Paul.

Matthew 24:22
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