Luke 23:31
for if they do these things to the green wood, what shall be done to the dry?
1770 John Worsley NT
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 say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us:
32And there were also two other malefactors led with Him to be put to death.
Cross References
John 15:6If any one abide not in me, he is cast out as a useless branch and withereth: and they gather them up, and throw them into the fire, and they are burnt.
1 Peter 4:17For the time is coming when judgement is to begin at the house of God: and if at us first, what will be the end of those that 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 →