Luke 23:31
“For if they doe these things in a green tree, what shalbe done in the drie?”
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Luke 23:31 Context
29For beholde, the dayes are comming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that neuer bare, and the paps which neuer gaue sucke. 30Then shall they begin to say to the mountaines, Fall on vs, and to the hils, Couer vs. 31For if they doe these things in a green tree, what shalbe done in the drie? 32And there were also two other malefactors led with him, to bee put to death. 33And when they were come to the place which is called Caluarie, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left.
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Other Translations for Luke 23:31
For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?
- King James Version
"For if they do these things when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?"
- New American Standard Version (1995)
For if they do these things in the green tree, what shall be done in the dry?
- American Standard Version (1901)
For if they do these things when the tree is green, what will they do when it is dry?
- Basic English Bible
for if these things are done in the green tree, what shall take place in the dry?
- Darby Bible
For if they do these things in a green tree, what will be done in the dry?
- Webster's Bible
For if they are doing these things in the case of the green tree, what will be done in that of the dry?"
- Weymouth Bible
For if they do these things in the green tree, what will be done in the dry?"
- World English Bible
For if in a greene tre thei don these thingis, what schal be don in a drie?
- Wycliffe Bible
for, if in the green tree they do these things -- in the dry what may happen?'
- Youngs Literal Bible
Wesley's Notes for Luke 23:31
23:31 If they do these things in the green tree, what shall be done in the dry? - Our Lord makes use of a proverbial expression, frequent among the Jews, who compare a good man to a green tree, and a bad man to a dead one: as if he had said, If an innocent person suffer thus, what will become of the wicked? Of those who are as ready for destruction as dry wood for the fire?
People's Bible Notes for Luke 23:31
Lu 23:31 If they do these things, etc. A proverb, meaning here, "If the rulers and the Romans crucify the Messiah of the nation, the Hope of Israel, what shall they do to the nation itself"? What they would do was seen in less than forty years.