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Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Luke 23:30

To the mountains, Fall on us ... - This is an image of great calamities and judgments. So great will be the calamities that they will seek for shelter from the storm, and will call on the hills to protect them. The same figure is used respecting the wicked in the day of judgment in Revelation 6:16-17. Compare also Isaiah 2:21. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Luke 23:26-27

Luke 23:26-27. And as they led him away After he had been barbarously scourged and mocked, as is recorded, Matthew 27:26-31, and Mark 15:15-20, where see the notes; they laid hold on one Simon, coming out of the country Who was probably a friend of Christ’s, and known to be so; and on him they laid the cross Which doubtless was done to put a reproach upon him; that he might bear it after Jesus Lest Jesus should faint under it, and die away, and so prevent the farther instances of the... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Luke 23:28-29

Luke 23:28-29. But Jesus turning, said, &c. Jesus, who ever felt the woes of others more than he did his own, forgetting his distress at the very time that it lay heaviest upon him, turned about, and with a benevolence and tenderness truly divine, said to them, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, &c. Not that they were to be blamed for weeping for him, but commended rather: those hearts were hard indeed, that were not affected with such sufferings of such a person; but he... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Luke 23:30-31

Luke 23:30-31 . Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us, &c. Proverbial expressions, to signify their desire of any shelter or refuge; and so very desirous were they of hiding themselves, that some thousands of them crept even into the common sewers, and there miserably perished, or were dragged out to slaughter. ( Bell., Luke 6:9.) For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry If the Romans are permitted by Heaven to inflict such heavy... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Luke 23:26-31

157. Journey to Golgotha (Matthew 27:32; Mark 15:21; Luke 23:26-31; John 19:17)As the prisoners set out for the place of execution, Jesus was made to carry his cross (John 19:17). He must have been weak from the brutal flogging, and when it appeared he was about to collapse, a passer-by was forced to carry it for him. This man, Simon, was from northern Africa and had apparently come to Jerusalem for the Passover (Luke 23:26).Among the crowd that followed Jesus were some women who wept and... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Luke 23:27

And there, &c.: verses: Luke 23:27-32 , peculiar to Luke. company multitude. bewailed and lamented = were beating their breasts and lamenting. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Luke 23:28

Daughters , &c. Not therefore the women from Galilee of verses: Luke 23:49 , Luke 23:55 . Greek. me. App-105 . for = on, or over. Greek. epi. App-104 . children. Greek. Plural of teknon. App-108 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Luke 23:29

Blessed = Happy. See note on Matthew 5:3 , and Compare Luke 11:27 . Hosea 9:12-16 . never bare = did not (Greek. ou. App-105 ) bear. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Luke 23:30

on. Greek. epi. App-104 . hills . Greek. Plural of bounds. Occurs only here and in Luke 3:5 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Luke 23:27

And there followed him a great multitude of the people, and of women who bewailed and lamented him.JESUS' PROPHECY TO THE DAUGHTERS OF JERUSALEM"The warm feeling with which all classes of women regarded Jesus is especially marked in this `the Gospel of womanhood'."[16] read more

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