Luke 23:31
"For if this is what they do in the green tree, what will they do in the dry?"
Montgomery 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
30"Then they will begin to say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us!’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us!’
32And there were led out with him to be executed, two criminals also.
Cross References
John 15:6"If any one does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers. Such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire and burned.
1 Peter 4:17It is time for judgment to begin with the household of God; and if it first begin with us, what shall be the end of those who are disobedient to the gospel?
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 →