Luke 17:37
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.
KJV
καὶ ἀποκριθέντες λέγουσιν αὐτῷ· ποῦ, κύριε; ὁ δὲ εἶπεν αὐτοῖς· ὅπου τὸ σῶμα, ἐκεῖ καὶ οἱ ἀετοὶ ἐπισυναχθήσονται.
Greek NT
Qui dixit illis : Ubicumque fuerit corpus, illuc congregabuntur et aquilæ.
Vulgate
And they answering say unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Where the body is, thither will the eagles also be gathered together.
ASV
Who said to them: Wheresoever the body shall be, thither will the eagles also be gathered together.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
13 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
- καὶ οἱ ἀετοὶ ἐπισυναχθήσονται — SBLGNT
- καὶ οἱ ἀετοὶ ἐπισυναχθήσονται — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- συναχθήσονται οἱ ἀετοὶ — Robinson-Pierpont
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- Job 39:29 — From thence she seeketh the prey, and her eyes behold afar off.
- Job 39:30 — Her young ones also suck up blood: and where the slain are, there is she.
- Matt 24:28 — For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
- Matt 24:28 — For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
- Rev 19:17 — And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God;
- Rev 19:18 — That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both sm
- Zech 13:8 — And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.