See, I have told you in advance.
"Behold, I am sending you forth like sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be as wise as serpents and innocent as doves.
For false christs and false prophets will be raised up, and they will show great signs and wonders so as to deceive, if possible, even the elect.
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.
But it shall turn out for you for a testimony.
"These things I have spoken to you, so that you should not be made to stumble.
I have previously said, and I say beforehand, as being present the second time, and now being absent I write to those who have sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I come again I will not spare you,
