Luke 23:31
For if they do all these things with the green wood, what will be done with the dry?
Thomas Haweis 1795 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 shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us! and to the hills, Cover us!
32Now there were two other persons, malefactors, led out with him to be executed.
Cross References
John 15:6If any man abide not in me, he is cast out as a branch, and withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
1 Peter 4:17For now is the time when judgment is commencing at the house of God; and if it begin with us, what will 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 →