Luke 23:31
For if they do these things in the ‘green tree’, what will happen in the ‘dry’?”
Family 35 New Testament
In The King James Version
For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?
In Context
30Then they will begin ‘to say to the mountains, “Fall on us!” and to the hills, “Cover us!”’
32There were also two others, criminals, led with Him to be put to death.
Cross References
John 15:6If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown out, like a branch, and dries up; well they gather such and throw them into the fire, and he is burned up.
1 Peter 4:17Because the time has come for judgment to begin at God's house; now if it starts with us, what will be the end of those who keep disobeying the Gospel of God?
Matthew Henry on Luke 23:27-32
The Crucifixion. 26 And as they led him away, they laid hold upon one Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country, and on him they laid the cross, that he might bear it after Jesus. 27 And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him. 28 But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children. 29 For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs… Read the whole commentary →