Luke 23:31
For if they do these things while the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?”
Unlocked Literal Bible
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.'
32Other men, two criminals, were led away with him to be put to death.
Cross References
Jeremiah 25:29For see, I am about to bring disaster on the city that is called by my name, and should you yourselves be free from punishment? You will not be free, for I am calling a sword against all the inhabitants of the land!—this is the declaration of Yahweh of hosts.'
Ezekiel 20:47Say to the forest of the Negev, 'This is Yahweh's declaration—the Lord Yahweh says this: See, I will set a fire among you. It will devour every fresh tree and every dried tree among you. The fiery flame will not be quenched; every face from the south to the north will be burned.
Daniel 9:26After the sixty-two sevens, the anointed one will be destroyed and will have nothing. The army of a coming ruler will destroy the city and the holy place. Its end will come with a flood, and there will be war even to the end. Desolations have been decreed.
John 15:6If anyone does not remain in me, he is thrown away like a branch and dries up, and they gather the branches and throw them into the fire, and they are burned up.
1 Peter 4:17For it is time for judgment to begin with the household of God. If it begins with us, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey God's gospel? 1
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 →