The Bible › Bible in Basic English › Matthew 24
Matthew 24:28
Wherever the dead body is, there will the eagles come together.
Matthew 24:28 · Bible in Basic English
← PreviousRead Matthew 24Next →
Matthew 24:28 in other translations
For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
Wherever there is a carcass, there the vultures will gather.
For wherever the carcass is, that is where the vultures gather together.
Every translation above is public domain and free to share. Other versions — NIV · ESV · NKJV · NLT · NASB · CSB · AMP — are copyrighted and open on their publishers’ partner site.
In context
25 See, I have made it clear to you before it comes about.
26 If, then, they say to you, See, he is in the waste land; go not out: See, he is in the inner rooms; put no faith in it.
27 Because as in a thunderstorm the bright light coming from the east is seen even in the west; so will be the coming of the Son of man.
28 Wherever the dead body is, there will the eagles come together.
29 But straight away, after the trouble of those days, the sun will be made dark and the moon will not give her light and the stars will come down from heaven and the powers of heaven will be moved:
30 And then the sign of the Son of man will be seen in heaven: and then all the nations of the earth will have sorrow, and they will see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
31 And he will send out his angels with a great sound of a horn, and they will get his saints together from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
Read Matthew 24 in the app The whole chapter