Matthew 24:5
Good News Translation
Many men, claiming to speak for me, will come and say, 'I am the Messiah!' and they will fool many people.

New Revised Standard Version
For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Messiah!’ and they will lead many astray.

Contemporary English Version
Many will come and claim to be me. They will say they are the Messiah, and they will fool many people.

New American Bible
For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Messiah,’ and they will deceive many.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For many will come in my name saying, I am Christ. And they will seduce many.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For many will come in my name saying, I am Christ. And they will seduce many.

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Matthew 24:11,24 And many false prophets shall rise and shall seduce many. . . .

Jeremiah 14:14 And the Lord said to me: The prophets prophesy falsely in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, nor have I spoken to them: they prophesy unto you a lying vision, and divination and deceit, and the seduction of their own heart.

Jeremiah 23:21,25 I did not send prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied. . . .

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.

Acts 5:36,37 For 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. . . .

Acts 8:9,10 There 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 13:8 And all that 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.

Context
Signs of the End of the Age
4And Jesus answering, said to them: Take heed that no man seduce you. 5For many will come in my name saying, I am Christ. And they will seduce many. 6And you shall hear of wars and rumours of wars. See that ye be not troubled. For these things must come to pass: but the end is not yet.…
Cross References
Jeremiah 37:9
But if you should even beat all the army of the Chaldeans that fight against you, and there should be left of them some wounded men: they shall rise up, every man from his heart, and burn this city with fire.

Matthew 24:11
And many false prophets shall rise and shall seduce many.

Matthew 24:24
For there shall arise false Christs and false prophets and shall shew great signs and wonders, insomuch as to deceive (if possible) even the elect.

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.

John 8:24
Therefore I said to you that you shall die in your sins. For if you believe not that I am he, you shall die in your sin.

John 8:28
Jesus therefore said to them: When you shall have lifted up, the Son of man, then shall you know that I am he and that I do nothing of myself. But as the Father hath taught me, these things I speak.

Acts 5:36
For 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.

1 John 2:18
Little children, it is the last hour: and as you have heard that Antichrist cometh, even now there are become many Antichrists: whereby we know that it is the last hour.

1 John 2:22
Who is a liar, but he who denieth that Jesus is the Christ? This is Antichrist, who denieth the Father and the Son.

1 John 4:3
And every spirit that dissolveth Jesus is not of God. And this is Antichrist, of whom you have heard that he cometh: and he is now already in the world.

Matthew 24:4
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