Luke 23:28-31 KJV
But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children.
For, behold, the days are coming, in the which shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.
Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us.
For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?
This whole text is intriguing to me, not just in the sense of what Jesus said, but that he had the composer, the wherewithal, and even the liberty of the Romans to say it.
The situation must have been energy packed, I imagine. It is, at least in my mind, difficult to see this as a slow paced chain of events. Once the order had been handed down for His execution, and having two others already scheduled for crucifixion, I expect that this whole series of events began to happen rather suddenly.
With the crowd pressing in on the prisoners, and with the soldiers compelling Simon the Cyrenian to bear the cross of Christ, the soldiers could not have been that happy about things. So for them to suffer Jesus to turn to the great company of people and speak to them at all is difficult to conceive in my mind.
And then Jesus, being
As weary
As beaten, and
As harriedAs He must have been at that moment; for Jesus to speak words which are at the same time,
Compassionate
Prophetical, and
Intensely profoundThis it tells me that Jesus is in complete control of this whole situation. On the surface this may appear to be a poor man being hurried to His death; but in reality this is our sovereign God tactically defeating the forces of sin, death and hell.
Thank God that He was willing to endure the cross for our salvation.
But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children.
For, behold, the days are coming, in the which shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.
Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us.
For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?
This whole text is intriguing to me, not just in the sense of what Jesus said, but that he had the composer, the wherewithal, and even the liberty of the Romans to say it.
The situation must have been energy packed, I imagine. It is, at least in my mind, difficult to see this as a slow paced chain of events. Once the order had been handed down for His execution, and having two others already scheduled for crucifixion, I expect that this whole series of events began to happen rather suddenly.
With the crowd pressing in on the prisoners, and with the soldiers compelling Simon the Cyrenian to bear the cross of Christ, the soldiers could not have been that happy about things. So for them to suffer Jesus to turn to the great company of people and speak to them at all is difficult to conceive in my mind.
And then Jesus, being
As weary
As beaten, and
As harriedAs He must have been at that moment; for Jesus to speak words which are at the same time,
Compassionate
Prophetical, and
Intensely profoundThis it tells me that Jesus is in complete control of this whole situation. On the surface this may appear to be a poor man being hurried to His death; but in reality this is our sovereign God tactically defeating the forces of sin, death and hell.
Thank God that He was willing to endure the cross for our salvation.
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