'Where the body is, there too will the vultures gather.' Luke 17:26-37

Today's Readings  

Gospel  

'Where the body is, there too will the vultures gather.'  

Luke 17:26-37

²⁶ 'As it was in Noah's day, so will it also be in the days of the Son of man.

²⁷ People were eating and drinking, marrying wives and husbands, right up to the day Noah went into the ark, and the Flood came and destroyed them all.

²⁸ It will be the same as it was in Lot's day: people were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building,

²⁹ but the day Lot left Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and it destroyed them all.

³⁰ It will be the same when the day comes for the Son of man to be revealed.

³¹ 'When that Day comes, no one on the housetop, with his possessions in the house, must come down to collect them, nor must anyone in the fields turn back.

³² Remember Lot's wife.

³³ Anyone who tries to preserve his life will lose it; and anyone who loses it will keep it safe.

³⁴ I tell you, on that night, when two are in one bed, one will be taken, the other left;

³⁵ when two women are grinding corn together, one will be taken, the other left.'

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³⁷ The disciples spoke up and asked, 'Where, Lord?' He said, 'Where the body is, there too will the vultures gather.'