Joseph Smith—Matthew 1:21 · Matthew 24:23
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The two-fold-application pivot. The near-verbatim clause 'if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there' pairs JS—M 1:21 with Matthew 24:23; the structural fact is the framing JS—M places around it — 'Behold, these things I have spoken unto you concerning the Jews; and again, after the tribulation of those days which shall come upon Jerusalem' (1:21) — an explicit division of the discourse into a Jerusalem application and a last-days application ('and again') that Matthew's single sequence does not state. The added framing is quoted from raw as textual fact; whether it interprets, expands, or preserves Matthew is the origin question, out of scope. asserted_by wiki.
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