Luke 23:31
For if they do these things in a green tree, what will be in the dry?
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
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 will they begin to say to the mountains, Fall upon us! and to the hills, Cover us!
32And there went along with him two others, malefactors, to be crucified.
Cross References
John 15:6And if a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a withered branch; and they gather it up, and cast it into the fire to be burned.
1 Peter 4:17For it is the time when judgment will commence with the house of God: and if it commence 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 →