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Luke 23:27-31
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Luke 23:27-31
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
27 And there followed him a great multitude of the people, and of women who bewailed and lamented him. 28 But Jesus turning to them said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. 29 For behold, the days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never gave suck!’ 30 Then they will begin to say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us’; and to the hills, ‘Cover us.’ 31 For if they do this when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?”[a]
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- 23.31 One does not burn green wood. The meaning is, that, if an innocent man is thus punished, what must the guilty (dry wood) expect?
Luke 23:27-31
New International Version
Luke 23:27-31
New International Version
27 A large number of people followed him, including women who mourned and wailed(A) for him. 28 Jesus turned and said to them, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me; weep for yourselves and for your children.(B) 29 For the time will come when you will say, ‘Blessed are the childless women, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’(C) 30 Then
31 For if people do these things when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?”(E)
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- Luke 23:30 Hosea 10:8
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