Luke 23:31
For if they do these things when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?”
Text-Critical English NT
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!’
32Now two others, who were criminals, were also being led away to be put to death with Jesus.
Cross References
John 15:6If anyone does not abide in me, he is thrown out like a branch and withers. Such branches are gathered up, thrown into the fire, and burned.
1 Peter 4:17For it is time for judgment to begin with the household of God, and if it begins first with us, what will be the outcome for those who are disobedient to 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 →