⁶ Many shall come in my name, saying, I am `he'; and shall lead many astray.

²² for there shall arise false Christs and false prophets, and shall show signs and wonders, that they may lead astray, if possible, the elect.

¹⁴ Then Jehovah said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name; I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake I unto them: they prophesy unto you a lying vision, and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their own heart.

¹ Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

³⁶ For before these days rose up Theudas, giving himself out to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves: who was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were dispersed, and came to nought.

³⁷ After this man rose up Judas of Galilee in the days of the enrolment, and drew away `some of the' people after him: he also perished; and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered abroad.

³⁸ And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will be overthrown:

³⁹ but if it is of God, ye will not be able to overthrow them; lest haply ye be found even to be fighting against God.

²⁴ I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for except ye believe that I am `he', ye shall die in your sins.

⁴³ I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.

²³ Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is the Christ, or, Here; believe `it' not.

²⁴ For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.

¹¹ And many false prophets shall arise, and shall lead many astray.

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

²¹ I sent not these prophets, yet they ran: I spake not unto them, yet they prophesied.

²² But if they had stood in my council, then had they caused my people to hear my words, and had turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.

²³ Am I a God at hand, saith Jehovah, and not a God afar off?

²⁴ Can any hide himself in secret places so that I shall not see him? saith Jehovah. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith Jehovah.

²⁵ I have heard what the prophets have said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.