Matthew 24:5
New International Version
For many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am the Messiah,’ and will deceive many.

New Living Translation
for many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am the Messiah.’ They will deceive many.

English Standard Version
For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will lead many astray.

Berean Standard Bible
For many will come in My name, claiming, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many.

Berean Literal Bible
For many will come in My name, saying, 'I am the Christ,' and they will mislead many.

King James Bible
For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.

New King James Version
For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many.

New American Standard Bible
For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will mislead many people.

NASB 1995
“For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will mislead many.

NASB 1977
“For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will mislead many.

Legacy Standard Bible
For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many.

Amplified Bible
For many will come in My name [misusing it, and appropriating the strength of the name which belongs to Me], saying, ‘I am the Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed),’ and they will mislead many.

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For many will come in My name, saying, I am the Messiah,’ and they will deceive many.

American Standard Version
For many shall come in my name, saying, I am the Christ; and shall lead many astray.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
“For many will come in my name, and they will say. 'I AM THE LIVING GOD, The Messiah', and they will deceive many.”

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

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

English Revised Version
For many shall come in my name, saying, I am the Christ; and shall lead many astray.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Many will come using my name. They will say, 'I am the Messiah,' and they will deceive many people.

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

International Standard Version
because many will come in my name and say, 'I'm the Messiah,' and they will deceive many people.

Literal Standard Version
for many will come in My Name, saying, I am the Christ, and they will lead many astray,

Majority Standard Bible
For many will come in My name, claiming, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many.

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

NET Bible
For many will come in my name, saying, 'I am the Christ,' and they will mislead many.

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

New Heart English Bible
For many will come in my name, saying, 'I am the Christ,' and will lead many astray.

Webster's Bible Translation
For many will come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and will deceive many.

Weymouth New Testament
"for many will come assuming my name and saying 'I am the Christ;' and they will mislead many.

World English Bible
For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will lead many astray.

Young's Literal Translation
for many shall come in my name, saying, I am the Christ, and they shall lead many astray,

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Context
Signs of the End of the Age
4Jesus answered, “See to it that no one deceives you. 5For many will come in My name, claiming, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many. 6You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. These things must happen, but the end is still to come.…

Cross References
Jeremiah 37:9
This is what the LORD says: Do not deceive yourselves by saying, 'The Chaldeans will go away for good,' for they will not!

Matthew 24:11
and many false prophets will arise and mislead many.

Matthew 24:24
For false Christs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders that would deceive even the elect, if that were possible.

John 5:43
I have come in My Father's name, and you have not received Me; but if someone else comes in his own name, you will receive him.

John 8:24
That is why I told you that you would die in your sins. For unless you believe that I am He, you will die in your sins."

John 8:28
So Jesus said, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing on My own, but speak exactly what the Father has taught Me.

Acts 5:36
Some time ago Theudas rose up, claiming to be somebody, and about four hundred men joined him. He was killed, all his followers were dispersed, and it all came to nothing.


Treasury of Scripture

For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.

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Matthew 24:11,24
And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many…

Jeremiah 14:14
Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart.

Jeremiah 23:21,25
I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied…

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Matthew 24
1. Jesus foretells the destruction of the temple;
3. what and how great calamities shall be before it;
29. the signs of his coming to judgment.
36. And because that day and hour are unknown,
42. we ought to watch like good servants, expecting our Master's coming.














(5) Many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ.--Better, the Christ. No direct fulfilments of this prediction are recorded, either in the New Testament, or by Josephus, or other historians. Bar-Cochba (the "son of the star"), who claimed to be the "Star" of the prophecy of Balaam (Numbers 24:17), is often named as a fulfilment; but he did not appear till A.D. 120--nearly 50 years after the destruction of Jerusalem. In the excited fanaticism of the time, however, it was likely enough that such pretenders should arise and disappear, after each had lived out his little day, and fill no place in history. The "many antichrists, i.e., rival Christs, of 1John 2:18, may point to such phenomena; possibly, also, the prophecy of 2Thessalonians 2:4. Theudas (the last rebel of that name--not the one named in Acts 5:36, but by Josephus, Ant. xx. 5), or "the Egyptian" of Acts 21:38, may possibly have mingled Messianic claims with their pretensions, but there is no evidence of it.

Verse 5. - Here begins what has been called the first strophe of the oracle (vers. 5-14), which indicates certain prognostics common to the close of the Jewish theocracy and to the end of the world. Many shall come in my Name (ἐπί τῷ ὀνόματί μου), resting on my Name, grounding their pretensions thereon. Saying, I am Christ (the Christ). They who really desired to follow Christ should be tried by the temptation to see in other persons the Messiah. The warning could scarcely have been needed by the apostles themselves; it must have been meant primarily for their converts and the early Christians. And though we have no account in apostolic Church history of any such pretenders, yet in the age succeeding our Lord's death we read of many impostors who asserted themselves to be inspired prophets, if not the Messiah, and led astray many credulous persons (see Josephus, 'Ant.,' 20:05. 1; 8. 6, etc.). There were doubtless many false Messiahs whose names are little known, and critics have enumerated twenty-nine such. The pretensions of these persons were not generally admitted, and their adherents were commonly few and uninfluential. Our Lord probably did not allude to these in his monition. But we may observe that the warning may include such deceivers as Simon Magus and those many false teachers who vexed the early Church, and, without assuming the name of Christ, did Satan's work by undermining the faith. St. John speaks of there being "many antichrists" in his day (1 John 2:18), and St. Paul had occasion to warn his converts against "heretical seducers" (see 2 Corinthians 11:13; 2 Thessalonians 2; 1 Timothy 6:3, etc.). Since then the prophecy has been fulfilled in the heretics who, professing to come in the Name of Christ and to enunciate his doctrine, or, like Mohammed, to assume his place, have taught lies. These shall abound in the latter days, and shall be a sign of the approaching end.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
For
γὰρ (gar)
Conjunction
Strong's 1063: For. A primary particle; properly, assigning a reason.

many
πολλοὶ (polloi)
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 4183: Much, many; often.

will come
ἐλεύσονται (eleusontai)
Verb - Future Indicative Middle - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 2064: To come, go.

in
ἐπὶ (epi)
Preposition
Strong's 1909: On, to, against, on the basis of, at.

My
μου (mou)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 1st Person Singular
Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.

name,
ὀνόματί (onomati)
Noun - Dative Neuter Singular
Strong's 3686: Name, character, fame, reputation. From a presumed derivative of the base of ginosko; a 'name'.

claiming,
λέγοντες (legontes)
Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3004: (a) I say, speak; I mean, mention, tell, (b) I call, name, especially in the pass., (c) I tell, command.

‘I
Ἐγώ (Egō)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Nominative 1st Person Singular
Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.

am
εἰμι (eimi)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 1st Person Singular
Strong's 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.

the
(ho)
Article - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

Christ,’
Χριστός (Christos)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 5547: Anointed One; the Messiah, the Christ. From chrio; Anointed One, i.e. The Messiah, an epithet of Jesus.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

will deceive many.
πλανήσουσιν (planēsousin)
Verb - Future Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 4105: To lead astray, deceive, cause to wander. From plane; to roam.


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