³⁶ For before this there was Theudas, who said he was someone important, to whom about four hundred men gave their support: he was put to death, and his band was broken up and came to nothing.

⁹ But there was a certain man named Simon, who in the past had been a wonder-worker and a cause of surprise to the people of Samaria, saying that he himself was a great man:

³⁸ Are you by chance the Egyptian who, before this, got the people worked up against the government and took four thousand men of the Assassins out into the waste land?

⁵ And on her brow was a name, SECRET, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE EVIL WOMEN AND OF THE UNCLEAN THINGS OF THE EARTH.

³ And he took me away in the Spirit into a waste land: and I saw a woman seated on a bright red beast, full of evil names, having seven heads and ten horns,

¹⁶ These are the men who make trouble, ever desiring change, going after evil pleasures, using high-sounding words, respecting men's position in the hope of reward.

¹⁸ For with high-sounding false words, making use of the attraction of unclean desires of the flesh, they get into their power those newly made free from those who are living in error;

² And a great number will go with them in their evil ways, through whom the true way will have a bad name.

³ Give no belief to false words: because there will first be a falling away from the faith, and the revelation of the man of sin, the son of destruction,

⁴ Who puts himself against all authority, lifting himself up over all which is named God or is given worship; so that he takes his seat in the Temple of God, putting himself forward as God.

⁵ Have you no memory of what I said when I was with you, giving you word of these things?

⁶ And now it is clear to you what is keeping back his revelation till the time comes for him to be seen.

⁷ For the secret of evil is even now at work: but there is one who is keeping back the evil till he is taken out of the way.

³ For if a man has an idea that he is something when he is nothing, he is tricked by himself.

⁶ But from those who seemed to be important (whatever they were has no weight with me: God does not take man's person into account): those who seemed to be important gave nothing new to me;

²⁶ If, then, they say to you, See, he is in the waste land; go not out: See, he is in the inner rooms; put no faith in it.

²⁴ For there will come up false Christs, and false prophets, who will do great signs and wonders; so that if possible even the saints might be tricked.