Matthew 24:28 BSB — MannaFest

Matthew 24:28

Wherever there is a carcass, there the vultures will gather.

BSB

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ASV

Wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.

KJV

For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.

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Commentary

2 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Matthew (420)

(Verse 28.) Wherever the body is, there the eagles will be gathered together. From the natural example that we see every day, we are instructed by the sacrament of Christ. Eagles and vultures are also said to sense corpses even across the seas, and to gather for such food.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

For wheresoever the carcass is - Πτωμα, the dead carcass. The Jewish nation, which was morally and judicially dead. There will the eagles - The Roman armies, called so partly from their strength and fierceness, and partly from the figure of these animals which was always wrought on their ensigns, or even in brass, placed on the tops of their ensign-staves. It is remarkable that the Roman fury pursued these wretched men wheresoever they were found. They were a dead carcass doomed to be devoured; and the Roman eagles were the commissioned devourers.

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Matthew (1856)

One main subject of this part of our Lord’s prophecy is the taking of Jerusalem by the Romans. That great event took place about forty years after the words we have now read were spoken. A full account of it is to be found in the writings of the historian Josephus. Those writings are the best comment on our Lord’s words; they are a striking proof of the accuracy of every title of his predictions.

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Original language & word study

9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ὅπου	hopou	wherever	G3699 →
ἐὰν	ean	if	G1437 →
ᾖ	ē	shall be	G1510 →
τὸ	to	the	G3588 →
πτῶμα,	ptōma	carcass,	G4430 →
ἐκεῖ	ekei	there	G1563 →
συναχθήσονται	sunachthēsontai	will be gathered	G4863 →
οἱ	hoi	the	G3588 →
ἀετοί.	aetoi	vultures.	G105 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Jeremiah 16:16
But for now I will send for many fishermen, declares the LORD, and they will catch them. After that I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down on every mountain…
leads to
- Habakkuk 1:14–15
  You have made men like the fish of the sea, like creeping things that have no ruler.
- Amos 4:2
  The Lord GOD has sworn by His holiness: “Behold, the days are coming when you will be taken away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.
- Micah 7:2
  The godly man has perished from the earth; there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; they hunt one another with a net.
- Revelation 6:15–17
  Then the kings of the earth, the nobles, the commanders, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and free man hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains.
Through
Deuteronomy 28:49
The LORD will bring a nation from afar, from the ends of the earth, to swoop down upon you like an eagle—a nation whose language you will not understand,
leads to
- Lamentations 4:19
  Those who chased us were swifter than the eagles in the sky; they pursued us over the mountains and ambushed us in the wilderness.
- Jeremiah 49:22
  Look! An eagle will soar and swoop down, spreading its wings over Bozrah. In that day the hearts of Edom’s mighty men will be like the heart of a woman in labor.
- Jeremiah 48:40
  For this is what the LORD says: “Behold, an eagle swoops down and spreads his wings against Moab.
Through
Luke 17:37
“Where, Lord?” they asked. Jesus answered, “Wherever there is a carcass, there the vultures will gather.”
leads to
- Job 39:29–30
  From there he spies out food; his eyes see it from afar.

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Matthew

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Matthew