Luke 23:31
29 Look, the days are coming when people will say, ‘Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore, and breasts that never nursed!’
30 At that time ‘they will say to the mountains, “Fall on us!” and to the hills, “Cover us!”’
For if men do these things while the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?”
32 Two others, who were criminals, were also led away to be executed with Jesus.
33 When they came to the place called The Skull, they crucified Him there, along with the criminals, one on His right and the other on His left.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- For if men do these things while the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?”
- KJV
- For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?
- WEB
- For if they do these things in the green tree, what will be done in the dry?”
- ASV
- For if they do these things in the green tree, what shall be done in the dry?
- DARBY
- for if these things are done in the green tree, what shall take place in the dry?
- BLB
- For if they do these things in the green tree, what might happen in the dry?”
- ÅB
- For gjør de så med det grønne tre, hvordan skal det da gå det tørre?
- OTB
- For gjør de dette med det grønne treet, hva skal da skje med det tørre?»
- B1930
- For gjør de så med det grønne tre, hvorledes skal det da gå det tørre?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Peter 4:17–18
For it is time for judgment to begin with the family of God; and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who disobey the gospel of God?
Read in contextProverbs 11:31
If the righteous receive their due on earth, how much more the ungodly and the sinner!
Read in contextJohn 15:6
If anyone does not remain in Me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers. Such branches are gathered up, thrown into the fire, and burned.
Read in contextEzekiel 20:47–48
Say to the forest of the Negev: Hear the word of the LORD! This is what the Lord GOD says: I am about to ignite in you a fire, and it will devour all your trees, both green and dry. The blazing flame will not be quenched, and by it every face from south to north will be scorched.
Read in contextEzekiel 15:2–7
“Son of man, how does the wood of the vine surpass any other branch among the trees in the forest?
Read in contextMatthew 3:12
His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
Read in contextEzekiel 21:3–4
and tell her that this is what the LORD says: ‘I am against you, and I will draw My sword from its sheath and cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked.
Read in contextJeremiah 25:29
For behold, I am beginning to bring disaster on the city that bears My Name, so how could you possibly go unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for I am calling down a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, declares the LORD of Hosts.’
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