Mark 13:21

Then if anyone tells you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or, ‘Look, there!’ don’t believe it.

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WEBBE

Then if anyone tells you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or, ‘Look, there!’ don’t believe it.

BSB

At that time if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or ‘There He is!’ do not believe it.

KJV

And then if any man shall say to you, Lo, here is Christ; or, lo, he is there; believe him not:

ASV

And then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is the Christ; or, Lo, there; believe [it] not:

BBE

And then if any man says to you, See, here is Christ; or, See, there; have no faith in it:

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καὶ kai And G2532 τότε tote then G5119 ἐάν ean if G1437 τις tis anyone G5100 ὑμῖν humin to you G4771 εἴπῃ eipē shall say G2036 ἴδε ide behold G2396 ὧδε hōde here [is] G5602 ὁ ho the G3588 χριστός christos Christ G5547 ἢ ē or G2228 ἴδε ide behold G2396 ἐκεῖ ekei there G1563 μὴ mē not G3361 πιστεύετε pisteuete you do believe [it] G4100

The early church

(ubi sup.) Some however refer this to the time of the Jewish captivity, where many, declaring themselves to be Christs, drew after them crowds of deluded persons; but during the siege of the city there was no Christian to whom the Divine exhortation, not to follow false teachers, could apply. Wherefore it is better to understand it of heretics, who, coming to oppose the Church, pretended to be Christs; the first of whom was Simon Magus, but that last one, greater than the rest, is Antichrist. It goes on: But take ye heed: behold, I have foretold you all things.
Bede · d. 735Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
After that the Lord had finished all that concerned Jerusalem, He now speaks of the coming of Antichrist, saying, Then if any man shall say to you, Lo, here is Christ; or, lo, he is there; believe him not. But when He says, then, think not that it means immediately after these things are fulfilled about Jerusalem; as Matthew also says after the birth of Christ, In those days came John the Baptist; (Matt. 3:1) does he mean immediately after the birth of Christ? No, but he speaks indefinitely and without precision. So also here, then may be taken to mean not when Jerusalem shall be made desolate, but about the time of the coming of Antichrist.
Theophylact of Ohrid · d. 1107Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 14–23

The Jews in rebelling against the Romans, and in persecuting the Christians, hastened their own ruin apace. Here we have a prediction of that ruin which came upon them within less than forty years after this. Such destruction and desolation, that the like cannot be found in any history. Promises of power to persevere, and cautions against falling away, well agree with each other. But the more we consider these things, the more we shall see abundant cause to flee without delay for refuge to Christ, and to renounce every earthly object, for the salvation of our souls.

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Jesus, The ChristMinister, ChristianTemptationAntichrist

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