Luke 23:31
For if they are doing these things in the case of the green tree, what will be done in that of the dry?"
Weymouth NT (1912)
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 on us;' and to the hills, `Cover us.'
32They brought also two others, criminals, to put them to death with Him.
Cross References
John 15:6If any one does not continue in me, he is like the unfruitful branch which is at once thrown away and then withers up. Such branches they gather up and throw into the fire and they are burned.
1 Peter 4:17For the time has come for judgement to begin, and to begin at 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 →