Matius 24:23

24:23 Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ ¹  or ‘There he is!’ do not believe him.

Matius 24:26

24:26 So then, if someone ²  says to you, ‘Look, he is in the wilderness,’ ³  do not go out, or ‘Look, he is in the inner rooms,’ do not believe him.

[24:23]  ¹ tn Or “Messiah”; both “Christ” (Greek) and “Messiah” (Hebrew and Aramaic) mean “one who has been anointed.”

[24:23]  sn See the note on Christ in 1:16.

[24:26]  ² tn Grk “they say.” The third person plural is used here as an indefinite and translated “someone” (ExSyn 402).

[24:26]  ³ tn Or “in the desert.”