Luke 21:8
Good News Translation
Jesus said, "Watch out; don't be fooled. Many men, claiming to speak for me, will come and say, 'I am he!' and, 'The time has come!' But don't follow them.

New Revised Standard Version
And he said, “Beware that you are not led astray; for many will come in my name and say, ‘I am he!’ and, ‘The time is near!’ Do not go after them.

Contemporary English Version
Jesus replied: Don't be fooled by those who will come and claim to be me. They will say, "I am Christ!" and "Now is the time!" But don't follow them.

New American Bible
He answered, “See that you not be deceived, for many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he,’ and ‘The time has come.’ Do not follow them!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who said: Take heed you be not seduced: for many will come in my name, saying: I am he and the time is at hand. Go ye not therefore after them.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Who said: Take heed you be not seduced: for many will come in my name, saying: I am he and the time is at hand. Go ye not therefore after them.

Take.

Jeremiah 29:8 For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Let not your prophets that are in the midst of you, and your diviners deceive you: and give no heed to your dreams which you dream:

Matthew 24:4,5,11,23-25 And Jesus answering, said to them: Take heed that no man seduce you. . . .

Mark 13:5,6,21-23 And Jesus answering, began to say to them: Take heed lest any man deceive you. . . .

2 Corinthians 11:13-15 For such false apostles are deceitful workmen, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. . . .

Ephesians 5:6 Let no man deceive you with vain words. For because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the children of unbelief.

2 Thessalonians 2:3,9-11 Let no man deceive you by any means: for unless there come a revolt first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition . . .

2 Timothy 3:13 But evil men and seducers shall grow worse and worse: erring, and driving into error,

1 John 4:1 Dearly beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits if they be of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

2 John 1:7 For many seducers are gone out into the world who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a seducer and an antichrist.

Revelation 12:9 And that great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, who seduceth the whole world. And he was cast unto the earth: and his angels were thrown down with him.

for.

John 5:43 I am come in the name of my Father, and you receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him you will receive.

Acts 5:36,37 For before these days rose up Theodas, affirming himself to be somebody, to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves. Who was slain: and all that believed him were scattered and brought to nothing. . . .

Acts 8:9,10 There was therefore great joy in that city. Now there was a certain man named Simon who before had been a magician in that city, seducing the people of Samaria, giving out that he was some great one: . . .

and the time.

Matthew 3:2 And saying: Do penance: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

Matthew 4:17 From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say: Do penance, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

Revelation 1:3 Blessed is he that readeth and heareth the words of this prophecy: and keepeth those things which are written in it. For the time is at hand.

Context
Temple Destruction Foretold
7And they asked him, saying: Master, when shall these things be? And what shall be the sign when they shall begin to come to pass? 8Who said: Take heed you be not seduced: for many will come in my name, saying: I am he and the time is at hand. Go ye not therefore after them. 9And when you shall hear of wars and seditions, be not terrified. These things must first come to pass: but the end is not yet presently.…
Cross References
Luke 17:23
And they will say to you: See here, and see there. Go ye not after, nor follow them.

Luke 21:7
And they asked him, saying: Master, when shall these things be? And what shall be the sign when they shall begin to come to pass?

Luke 21:9
And when you shall hear of wars and seditions, be not terrified. These things must first come to pass: but the end is not yet presently.

John 8:24
Therefore I said to you that you shall die in your sins. For if you believe not that I am he, you shall die in your sin.

John 8:28
Jesus therefore said to them: When you shall have lifted up, the Son of man, then shall you know that I am he and that I do nothing of myself. But as the Father hath taught me, these things I speak.

1 Corinthians 6:9
Know you not that the unjust shall not possess the kingdom of God? Do not err: Neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers:

Luke 21:7
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