Luke 23:31 NIV: For if people do these things when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?"

Luke 23:31

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New International Version (© 2011)
For if people do these things when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?"

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

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

Young's Literal Translation
for, if in the green tree they do these things -- in the dry what may happen?'

Luke 23:31 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

If they do these things in a green tree - This seems to be a proverbial expression, the sense of which is: If they spare not a tree which, by the beauty of its foliage, abundance and excellence of its fruits, deserves to be preserved, then the tree which is dry and withered will surely be cut down. If an innocent man be put to death in the very face of justice, in opposition to all its dictates and decisions, by a people who profess to be governed and directed by Divine laws, what desolation, injustice, and oppression may not be expected, when anarchy and confusion sit in the place where judgment and justice formerly presided? Our Lord alludes prophetically to those tribulations which fell upon the Jewish people about forty years after. See the notes on Matthew 24:1-51 (note).

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