Luke 21:8

21:8 He ¹  said, “Watch out ²  that you are not misled. For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he,’ ³  and, ‘The time is near.’ Do not follow them!

Matthew 24:23-28

24:23 Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ ⁴  or ‘There he is!’ do not believe him. 24:24 For false messiahs ⁵  and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. 24:25 Remember, ⁶  I have told you ahead of time. 24:26 So then, if someone ⁷  says to you, ‘Look, he is in the wilderness,’ ⁸  do not go out, or ‘Look, he is in the inner rooms,’ do not believe him. 24:27 For just like the lightning ⁹  comes from the east and flashes to the west, so the coming of the Son of Man will be. 24:28 Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures ¹⁰  will gather. ¹¹ 

Mark 13:21

13:21 Then ¹²  if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ ¹³  or ‘Look, there he is!’ do not believe him.

¹ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

² tn Or “Be on guard.”

³ tn That is, “I am the Messiah.”

⁴ tn Or “Messiah”; both “Christ” (Greek) and “Messiah” (Hebrew and Aramaic) mean “one who has been anointed.”

⁵ tn Or “false christs”; both “Christ” (Greek) and “Messiah” (Hebrew and Aramaic) mean “one who has been anointed.”

⁶ tn Or “Pay attention!” Grk “Behold.”

⁷ tn Grk “they say.” The third person plural is used here as an indefinite and translated “someone” (ExSyn 402).

⁸ tn Or “in the desert.”

⁹ sn The Son of Man’s coming in power will be sudden and obvious like lightning. No one will need to point it out.

¹⁰ tn The same Greek term can refer to “eagles” or “vultures” (L&N 4.42; BDAG 22 s.v. ἀετός), but in this context it must mean vultures because the gruesome image is one of dead bodies being consumed by scavengers.

¹¹ tn Grk “will be gathered.” The passive construction has been translated as an active one in English.

¹² tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.

¹³ tn Or “the Messiah”; both “Christ” (Greek) and “Messiah” (Hebrew and Aramaic) mean “one who has been anointed.”