A DECEIVER, an impostor — from planaō, to lead astray, to cause to wander; the root behind English 'planet', a wandering star. ⚠ It is the chief priests' word for Jesus at Matthew 27:63, ‘that deceiver’, and its force comes from where the reader last met the root: four times in the discourse of chapter 24, of the false messiahs and false prophets who ‘will lead many astray’ (24:4, 5, 11, 24). They use the vocabulary of his own warning, against him, three days after he gave it. Matthew does not point it out. In 2 Corinthians 6:8 Paul takes the same word up as one of the paired opposites of his ministry — ‘as deceivers, and yet true.’ → first discussed at Matt 27:63