Matthew 24:26 - English Majority Text Version 2009

²⁶ Therefore if they should say to you, 'Look, He is in the desert!' do not go out; or 'Look, He is in the inner rooms!' do not believe [it].

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁶ Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁶ So if they say to you, Behold, He is in the wilderness (desert)–do not go out there; if they tell you, Behold, He is in the secret places or inner rooms–do not believe it.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁶ If therefore they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the wilderness; go not forth: Behold, he is in the inner chambers; believe it not.

Common English Bible

²⁶ So if they say to you, ‘Look, he’s in the desert,’ don’t go out. And if they say, ‘Look, he’s in the rooms deep inside the house,’ don’t believe it.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ Therefore, if they will have said to you, 'Behold, he is in the desert,' do not choose to go out, or, 'Behold, he is in the inner rooms,' do not be willing to believe it.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁶ If therefore they shall say to you: Behold he is in the desert, go ye not out: Behold he is in the closets, believe it not.

Matthew 24:26 Cross References

Matthew 24:25

See, I have told you in advance.

Matthew 24:27

For as the lightning comes out from the east and flashes to the west, so shall also be the coming of the Son of Man.

Matthew 3:1

In those days John the Baptist arrived preaching in the wilderness of Judea,

Acts 21:38

Are you not then the Egyptian who rose up before these days, and led forth the four thousand men of the assassins into the wilderness?"