Mark 13:21
Good News Translation
"Then, if anyone says to you, 'Look, here is the Messiah!' or, 'Look, there he is!'--do not believe it.

New Revised Standard Version
And if anyone says to you at that time, ‘Look! Here is the Messiah!’ or ‘Look! There he is!’—do not believe it.

Contemporary English Version
If someone should say, "Here is the Messiah!" or "There he is!" don't believe it.

New American Bible
If anyone says to you then, ‘Look, here is the Messiah! Look, there he is!’ do not believe it.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And then if any man shall say to you: Lo, here is Christ. Lo, he is here: do not believe.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And then if any man shall say to you: Lo, here is Christ. Lo, he is here: do not believe.

Deuteronomy 13:1-3 If there rise in the midst of thee a prophet or one that saith he hath dreamed a dream, and he foretell a sign and a wonder, . . .

Matthew 24:5,23-25 For many will come in my name saying, I am Christ. And they will seduce many. . . .

Luke 17:23,24 And they will say to you: See here, and see there. Go ye not after, nor follow them. . . .

Luke 21:8 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.

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.

Context
The Abomination of Desolation
20And unless the Lord had shortened the days, no flesh should be saved: but, for the sake of the elect which he hath chosen, he hath shortened the days. 21And then if any man shall say to you: Lo, here is Christ. Lo, he is here: do not believe. 22For there will rise up false Christs and false prophets: and they shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce (if it were possible) even the elect.…
Cross References
Mark 13:20
And unless the Lord had shortened the days, no flesh should be saved: but, for the sake of the elect which he hath chosen, he hath shortened the days.

Mark 13:22
For there will rise up false Christs and false prophets: and they shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce (if it were possible) even the elect.

Luke 17:23
And they will say to you: See here, and see there. Go ye not after, nor follow them.

Mark 13:20
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