37And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.
Linguistic Insight
Tap any underlined word in the verse to see its original meaning.
Cross-References
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
From thence she seeketh the prey, and her eyes behold afar off. …
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; …
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. …
I saw the Lord standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 20-37)We have here a discourse of Christ’s concerning the kingdom of God , that is, the kingdom of the Messiah, which was now shortly to be set up , and of which there was great expectation. I. Here is the demand of the Pharisees concerning it, which occasioned this discourse. They asked when the kingdom of God should come , forming a notion of it as a temporal kingdom , which should advance the Jewish…
My Notes
Notes are saved on this device.