Matthew Chapter 24 verse 5 Holy Bible

ASV Matthew 24:5

For many shall come in my name, saying, I am the Christ; and shall lead many astray.
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BBE Matthew 24:5

For people will come in my name, saying, I am the Christ; and a number will be turned from the true way through them.
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DARBY Matthew 24:5

For many shall come in my name, saying, *I* am the Christ, and they shall mislead many.
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KJV Matthew 24:5

For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
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WEB Matthew 24:5

For many will come in my name, saying, 'I am the Christ,' and will lead many astray.
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YLT Matthew 24:5

for many shall come in my name, saying, I am the Christ, and they shall lead many astray,
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 5. - Here begins what has been called the first strophe of the oracle (vers. 5-14), which indicates certain prognostics common to the close of the Jewish theocracy and to the end of the world. Many shall come in my Name (ἐπί τῷ ὀνόματί μου), resting on my Name, grounding their pretensions thereon. Saying, I am Christ (the Christ). They who really desired to follow Christ should be tried by the temptation to see in other persons the Messiah. The warning could scarcely have been needed by the apostles themselves; it must have been meant primarily for their converts and the early Christians. And though we have no account in apostolic Church history of any such pretenders, yet in the age succeeding our Lord's death we read of many impostors who asserted themselves to be inspired prophets, if not the Messiah, and led astray many credulous persons (see Josephus, 'Ant.,' 20:05. 1; 8. 6, etc.). There were doubtless many false Messiahs whose names are little known, and critics have enumerated twenty-nine such. The pretensions of these persons were not generally admitted, and their adherents were commonly few and uninfluential. Our Lord probably did not allude to these in his monition. But we may observe that the warning may include such deceivers as Simon Magus and those many false teachers who vexed the early Church, and, without assuming the name of Christ, did Satan's work by undermining the faith. St. John speaks of there being "many antichrists" in his day (1 John 2:18), and St. Paul had occasion to warn his converts against "heretical seducers" (see 2 Corinthians 11:13; 2 Thessalonians 2; 1 Timothy 6:3, etc.). Since then the prophecy has been fulfilled in the heretics who, professing to come in the Name of Christ and to enunciate his doctrine, or, like Mohammed, to assume his place, have taught lies. These shall abound in the latter days, and shall be a sign of the approaching end.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(5) Many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ.--Better, the Christ. No direct fulfilments of this prediction are recorded, either in the New Testament, or by Josephus, or other historians. Bar-Cochba (the "son of the star"), who claimed to be the "Star" of the prophecy of Balaam (Numbers 24:17), is often named as a fulfilment; but he did not appear till A.D. 120--nearly 50 years after the destruction of Jerusalem. In the excited fanaticism of the time, however, it was likely enough that such pretenders should arise and disappear, after each had lived out his little day, and fill no place in history. The "many antichrists, i.e., rival Christs, of 1John 2:18, may point to such phenomena; possibly, also, the prophecy of 2Thessalonians 2:4. Theudas (the last rebel of that name--not the one named in Acts 5:36, but by Josephus, Ant. xx. 5), or "the Egyptian" of Acts 21:38, may possibly have mingled Messianic claims with their pretensions, but there is no evidence of it.