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Jesus warns in Matthew that many false prophets will arise and deceive many in the last days. 2 John echoes this language, now saying that many deceivers have already gone out into the world.
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2500 BCE
1000+ CE
Matthew 24:11
New Testament
9 “Then they will hand you over to be persecuted and will kill you. You will be hated by all the nations because of my name. 10 Then many will be led into sin, and they will betray one another and hate one another. 11 And many false prophets will appear and deceive many, 12 and because lawlessness will increase so much, the love of many will grow cold. 13 But the person who endures to the end will be saved.
2 John 1:7
New Testament
6 (Now this is love: that we walk according to his commandments.) This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning; thus you should walk in it. 7 For many deceivers have gone out into the world, people who do not confess Jesus as Christ coming in the flesh. This person is the deceiver and the antichrist! 8 Watch out, so that you do not lose the things we have worked for, but receive a full reward.
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Notes and References
“... The teachers are described as deceivers who have strayed from truth into error. Of the thirty occurrences of the planao word group in the New Testament letters, one-third are clustered tightly together in the small canonical space occupied by 2 Peter and 1-2 John. Hearing this verb repeated here in association with ‘false prophets’ brings to mind Christ’s warning in Matthew’s gospel that ‘false prophets will arise and lead many astray (planesousin)’ (Matthew 24:11, 24), which itself develops a point from earlier in Matthew: ‘Beware of false prophets ... you will know them by their fruits’ (Matthew 7:15-16). The letters thus recall Jesus’ words that false prophet-teachers will present an ethically distorted gospel. According to 2 Peter, it is not Christ’s name but Christ’s lordship that is rejected (2:1); it is the ‘way’ of truth that is being denied (2:3); these false prophets ‘have left the straight road’ (2:15), have turned back from the commandments and don’t walk in the ‘way’ of righteousness (2:21). ...
Nienhuis, David R.
"'From the Beginning': The Formation of an Apostolic Christian Identity in 2 Peter and 1-3 John" in Hockey, Katherine M., Madison N. Pierce, and Francis Watson (eds.) 'From the Beginning': The Formation of an Apostolic Christian Identity in 2 Peter and 1-3 John
(p. 79) T&T Clark / Bloomsbury, 2017
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