At that time if anyone says to you, look, here is the Messiah! or, look, there he is! do not believe it — the false messiah warning is repeated (cf. verse 6) with specific geographic precision: look, here or look, there — local claims of the Messiah's location. The instruction not to believe it communicates that the genuine coming of the Son of Man will not be a local, hideable event requiring others to point it out.

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