Matthew 24:5

Good News Translation (US Version)

Many men, claiming to speak for me, will come and say, ‘I am the Messiah!’ and they will fool many people.

Cross References

Matthew 24:24

For false Messiahs and false prophets will appear; they will perform great miracles and wonders in order to deceive even God's chosen people, if possible.

Matthew 24:11

Then many false prophets will appear and fool many people.

Jeremiah 14:14

But the Lord replied, “The prophets are telling lies in my name; I did not send them, nor did I give them any orders or speak one word to them. The visions they talk about have not come from me; their predictions are worthless things that they have imagined.

1 John 2:18

My children, the end is near! You were told that the Enemy of Christ would come; and now many enemies of Christ have already appeared, and so we know that the end is near.

Jeremiah 23:25

I know what those prophets have said who speak lies in my name and claim that I have given them my messages in their dreams.

John 5:43

I have come with my Father's authority, but you have not received me; when, however, someone comes with his own authority, you will receive him.

Revelation 13:8

All people living on earth will worship it, except those whose names were written before the creation of the world in the book of the living which belongs to the Lamb that was killed.

Jeremiah 23:21

The Lord said, “I did not send these prophets, but even so they went. I did not give them any message, but still they spoke in my name.

Jeremiah 37:9

I, the Lord, warn you not to deceive yourselves into thinking that the Babylonians will not come back, because they will.

John 8:24

That is why I told you that you will die in your sins. And you will die in your sins if you do not believe that ‘I Am Who I Am’.”

John 8:28

So he said to them, “When you lift up the Son of Man, you will know that ‘I Am Who I Am’; then you will know that I do nothing on my own authority, but I say only what the Father has instructed me to say.

1 John 2:22

Who, then, is the liar? It is those who say that Jesus is not the Messiah. Such people are the Enemy of Christ—they reject both the Father and the Son.

1 John 4:3

But anyone who denies this about Jesus does not have the Spirit from God. The spirit that he has is from the Enemy of Christ; you heard that it would come, and now it is here in the world already.