Luke 23:31
If what you see is done while the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?”
Twentieth Century 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
30At that time people will begin to say to the mountains ‘Fall on us,’ and to the hills ‘Cover us.’
32There were two others also, criminals, led out to be executed with Jesus.
Cross References
John 15:6If any one does not remain united to me, he is thrown away, as a branch would be, and withers up. Such branches are collected and thrown into the fire, and are burnt.
1 Peter 4:17For the time has come for judgment to begin with the House of God; and, if it begins with us, what will be the end of those who reject God’s Good News?
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 →