Where the body is, the vultures will gather

Matthew

Mt 24:23-27.

²³ If anyone says to you then, ‘Look, here is the Messiah!’ or, ‘There he is!’ do not believe it.

²⁴ False messiahs and false prophets will arise, and they will perform signs and wonders so great as to deceive, if that were possible, even the elect.

²⁵ Behold, I have told it to you beforehand.

²⁶ So if they say to you, ‘He is in the desert,’ do not go out there; if they say, ‘He is in the inner rooms,’ do not believe it.*

²⁷ For just as lightning comes from the east and is seen as far as the west, so will the coming of the Son of Man be.

²⁸ Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will gather.

Luke

Lk 17:31-37.

³¹ On that day, a person who is on the housetop and whose belongings are in the house must not go down to get them, and likewise a person in the field must not return to what was left behind.

³² Remember the wife of Lot.

³³ Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses it will save it.

³⁴ I tell you, on that night there will be two people in one bed; one will be taken, the other left.

³⁵ And there will be two women grinding meal together; one will be taken, the other left.”

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³⁷They said to him in reply, “Where, Lord?” He said to them, “Where the body is, there also the vultures will gather.”

Exegesis

"For the plurality of recent commentaries, when the Son of Man appears the disciples will be as sure of where he is as vultures are sure of the place of the cadaver, i.e. they will no more need a special sign than do the vultures."