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John Gill
And he said, take heed that ye be not deceived,.... With false Christs, and false prophets: for many shall come in my name; making use of his name, taking it to them; not that they would pretend they were sent by him, but that they were he himself: saying, I am [Christ]; so the Syriac and Persic versions supply as we do: and the time draweth near; not that such will come, but when come, they will...
Matthew Henry
In this chapter we have, I. The notice Christ took, and the approbation he gave, of a poor widow that cast two mites into the treasury, ver. 1-4. II. A prediction of future events, in answer to his disciples' enquiries concerning them, ver. 5-7. 1. Of what should happen between that and the destruction of Jerusalem—false Christs arising, bloody wars and persecutions of Christ's followers, ver....
Charles H. Spurgeon
And he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall come in my name, saying I am Christ; and the time draweth near: go ye not therefore after them. This passage refers, in the first place, to the siege of Jerusalem and in its second and yet fuller meaning, to the coming of the Lord. It looks to me that our Lord regarded the destruction of Jerusalem as “the beginning of the end,” the...