Mark 13:21

21 Then if anyone tells you, 'Look, here is the Messiah!' or, 'Look, there!' don't believe it.

Mark 13:21 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 13:21

And then if any man shall say to you
During those days of tribulation and affliction, or when shortened and at an end:

lo! [here is] Christ, or lo! [he is] there;
the Messiah has appeared in such or in such a place, to deliver you from your national distresses and calamities, and from the Roman yoke and bondage:

believe him not;
give no credit to such a report, for the reason following; (See Gill on Matthew 24:23).

Mark 13:21 In-Context

19 For in those days there will be oppression, such as there has not been the like from the beginning of the creation which God created until now, and never will be.

20 Unless the Lord had shortened the days, no flesh would have been saved; but for the elect's sake, whom he chose, he shortened the days.

21 Then if anyone tells you, 'Look, here is the Messiah!' or, 'Look, there!' don't believe it.

22 For there will arise false messiahs and false prophets, and will show signs and wonders, that they may lead astray, if possible, also the elect.

23 But you watch. "Behold, I have told you all things beforehand.