Luke 17:37
Good News Translation
The disciples asked him, "Where, Lord?" Jesus answered, "Wherever there is a dead body, the vultures will gather."

New Revised Standard Version
Then they asked him, “Where, Lord?” He said to them, “Where the corpse is, there the vultures will gather.”

Contemporary English Version
Then Jesus' disciples spoke up, "But where will this happen, Lord?" Jesus said, "Where there is a corpse, there will always be vultures."

New American Bible
They said to him in reply, “Where, Lord?” He said to them, “Where the body is, there also the vultures will gather.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who said to them: Wheresoever the body shall be, thither will the eagles also be gathered together.

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Who said to them: Wheresoever the body shall be, thither will the eagles also be gathered together.

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Job 39:29,30 From thence she looketh for the prey, and her eyes behold afar off. . . .

Daniel 9:26,27 And after sixty-two weeks Christ shall be slain: and the people that shall deny him shall not be his. And a people, with their leader, that shall come, shall destroy the city, and the sanctuary: and the end thereof shall be waste, and after the end of the war the appointed desolation. . . .

Amos 9:1-4 They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say: Thy God, O Dan, liveth: and the way of Bersabee liveth: and they shall fall, and shall rise no more. . . .

Zechariah 13:8,9 And there shall be in all the earth, saith the Lord, two parts in it shall be scattered, and shall perish: but the third part shall be left therein. . . .

Zechariah 14:2 And I will gather all nations to Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken, and the houses shall be rifled, and the women shall be defiled: and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the rest of the people shall not be taken away out of the city.

Matthew 24:28 Wheresoever the body shall be, there shall the eagles also be gathered together.

1 Thessalonians 2:16 Prohibiting us to speak to the Gentiles, that they may be saved, to fill up their sins always: for the wrath of God is come upon them to the end.

Revelation 19:17,18 And I saw an angel standing in the sun: and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that did fly through the midst of heaven: Come, gather yourselves together to the great supper of God: . . .

Context
The Coming of the Kingdom
37Who said to them: Wheresoever the body shall be, thither will the eagles also be gathered together.
Cross References
Job 39:30
Her young ones shall suck up blood: and wheresoever the carcass shall be, she is immediately there.

Matthew 24:28
Wheresoever the body shall be, there shall the eagles also be gathered together.

Luke 17:36
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