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Luke 17:37

They asked him, “Where, Lord?” and he said to them, “Where there is a body, there will the vultures also be gathered together.”

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In The King James Version

And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.

In Context

36+ 17:36 Luke 17:36 the best ancient copies omit, vs. 36 There will be two in the field; one will be taken and the other left .

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Cross References

Daniel 9:26After the sixty-two sevens, the anointed one will be destroyed and will have nothing. The army of a coming ruler will destroy the city and the holy place. Its end will come with a flood, and there will be war even to the end. Desolations have been decreed.

Zechariah 13:8Then it will come about that throughout all the land—this is Yahweh's declaration— 1 that two-thirds of it will be cut off! Those people will perish; 1 only one-third will remain there. 1

Matthew 24:28Wherever a dead animal is, there the vultures will gather.

Revelation 19:17I saw an angel standing in the sun. He called out in a loud voice to all the birds flying overhead, “Come, gather together for the great feast of God.

Matthew Henry on Luke 17:21-37

The Progress of Christ's Kingdom; Destruction of Jerusalem. 20 And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: 21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you. 22 And he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see it. 23 And they shall say to you, See here; or, see there: go not… Read the whole commentary →

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