²³ People will tell you, ‘There he is!’ or ‘Here he is!’ Do not go running off after them.^(A)

⁵ Jesus said to them: “Watch out that no one deceives you.^(A)

⁶ Many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am he,’ and will deceive many.

²¹ At that time if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Messiah!’ or, ‘Look, there he is!’ do not believe it.^(A)

Warnings Against Denying the Son

¹⁸ Dear children, this is the last hour;^(A) and as you have heard that the antichrist is coming,^(B) even now many antichrists have come.^(C) This is how we know it is the last hour.