Luke 23:31
For if to the tree which is good they do these things, unto the dry what shall be?
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
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 shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us! and to the heights, Cover us!
32And there went with him two others, workers of evil, to be put to death.
Cross References
John 15:6But if a man abide not in me, he is cast without, as a withered branch; and, gathering, they cast it into the fire to burn.
1 Peter 4:17For the time is, that judgment shall begin from the house of Aloha. But if from us it begin, what is the end (to be) of them who obey not the gospel of Aloha?
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 →