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Then if any man will tell you, `Behold, here is the Christ,` or, `There,` don`t believe it.
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Beware False Saviors in Crisis
Commentators explain that Jesus gives this warning because people are most vulnerable during times of crisis. When facing great calamities, like the destruction of Jerusalem or end-times turmoil, people become desperate for a deliverer. This desperation makes them susceptible to impostors offering false hope and easy solutions. Jesus commands His followers to reject these claims outright.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Lo, here is Christ. The Messiah. The Jews expected the Messiah to deliver them from Roman oppression.
In the time of these great ca…
Lo, here is the Christ, or here (ιδου ωδε ο Χριστος η ωδε). The false prophets (24:11) create the trouble and now false Christs (ψ…
19th Century
Anglican
Lo, here is Christ, or there — A better translation is, Lo, here is the Christ. The narrative of Josephus, while speaking…
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Baptist
Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and …
Empty-headed credulity is as great an enemy of true faith as chronic skepticism. Christian faith involves the sober responsibility of neither belie…
16th Century
Protestant
If any one shall then say to you. He again repeats what He had said about impostors, and not without reason. For there was great danger fr…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Then if any man shall say to you Either at the time when the siege shall be begun, and the abomination of desolation…
The disciples had asked concerning the times, "When should these things be?" Christ gave them no answer to that; but they had also asked, "What sha…
13th Century
Catholic
After the Lord answered the disciples' question concerning the destruction of the city of Jerusalem, He begins here to answer them concerning His S…