Luke 23:31
Because if they do these things in the green tree, what may be done in the dry?
1902 William Baxter Godbey 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, Hide us.
32And two malefactors were also led away with Him, to be executed.
Cross References
John 15:6If any one may not abide in me, he is cast out as a branch, and withered; and they gather it, and cast it into the fire, and it is burnt.
1 Peter 4:17Because it is time that judgment should begin from the house of God: and if it is first from us, what shall be the end of those who obey not 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 →