And then if any man shall say to you,.... During those days of tribulation and affliction, or when shortened and at an end:
lo! [here is] Christ, or lo! [he is] there; the Messiah has appeared in such or in such a place, to deliver you from your national distresses and calamities, and from the Roman yoke and bondage:
believe him not; give no credit to such a report, for the reason following; Matthew 24:23.