²³Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look! Here is the Messiah!’^j or ‘There he is!’—do not believe it.^* ²⁴For false messiahs^k and false prophets will appear and produce great signs and wonders, to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.^* ²⁵Take note, I have told you beforehand. ²⁶So, if they say to you, ‘Look! He is in the wilderness,’ do not go out. If they say, ‘Look! He is in the inner rooms,’ do not believe it. ²⁷For as the lightning comes from the east and flashes as far as the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.^* ²⁸Wherever the corpse is, there the eagles will gather.

The Coming of the Son of Man

²⁹“Immediately after the suffering of those days

the sun will be darkened,

and the moon will not give its light;

the stars will fall from heaven,

and the powers of heaven will be shaken.^*

³⁰“Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see ‘the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven’ with power and great glory.^* ³¹And he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.^*

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Footnotes

jOr the Christ
kOr christs

Cross references

*Lk 17:23; 21:8
*2 Thess 2:9–11; Rev 13:13
*Lk 17:24
*Isa 13:10; Ezek 32:7; Joel 2:10; Rev 8:12
*Dan 7:13; Mt 16:27; Rev 1:7
*Isa 27:13; Zech 9:14; 1 Cor 15:52; 1 Thess 4:16