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Luke 23:31 KJV
Luke · chapter 23 · verse 31
For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?Luke 23:31 · King James Version
Luke 23:31 in context
29For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.
30Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us.
31For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?
32And there were also two other, malefactors, led with him to be put to death.
33And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- greenhygrosdamp, moist, wet, full of sap, greenG5200 →
- treexylonwood, that which is made of wood, as a beam from which any one is suspended, a gibbet, a…G3586 →
- doneginomaito becomeG1096 →
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We have here the blessed Jesus, the Lamb of God, led as a lamb to the slaughter, to the sacrifice. It is strange with what expedition they went through his trial; how they could do so much work in such a little time, though they had so many great men to deal with, attendance on whom is usually a work of time.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 26-31