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Luke 23:31

King James Version (KJV)

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Luke 23:31

Verse 31 of 56

Scripture focus

For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?

Luke 23:31 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Luke 23:31

Theological / Devotional

Green. Gr. hugros, “damp,” “moist,” or “wet,” as applied to a tree, “full of sap.” By a “green” tree Jesus refers to Himself (DA 743). Jesus was innocent, and if the things now occurring could happen to an innocent man, what would be the fate of those who were guilty?

What shall be done? Again Jesus refers to the calamities that would accompany the fall of Jerusalem nearly 40 years later (see on v. 29).

The dry. A figurative description of the state of Jewish society that led to the rejection of the Jews as God’s chosen people and to their dissolution as a nation (see Vol. IV, pp. 25-38).

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