Lucas 23:30 NVT

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Luke 23:26-31

We have here the blessed Jesus, the Lamb of God, led as a lamb to the slaughter, to the sacrifice. It is strange with what expedition they went through his trial; how they could do so much work in such a little time, though they had so many great men to deal with, attendance on whom is usually a work of time. He was brought before the chief priests at break of day (Luke 22:66), after that to Pilate, then to Herod, then to Pilate again; and there seems to have been a long struggle between... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Luke 23:26-31

23:26-31 As they led Jesus away, they took Simon, a Cyrenian, who was coming in from the country, and on him they laid the cross to carry it behind Jesus. There followed him a great crowd of the people and of women who bewailed and lamented him. Jesus turned to them. "Daughters of Jerusalem," he said, "do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children, because--look you--days are on the way in which they will say, 'Happy are those who are barren, and the wombs that... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 23:30

Then shall they begin to say ,.... The Syriac, Arabic, and Persic versions read, "then shall ye begin to say"; the tribulation being so great, as never was the like since the creation of the world, nor never will be to the end of it; and being so sore pressed with the sword and famine; with the enemy without, and divisions, robberies, and murders within; and their miseries being inexpressible, and intolerable, they will seek to go into the holes of the rocks, and caves of the earth, as is... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 23:30

Mountains, fall on us - As this refers to the destruction of Jerusalem, and as the same expressions are used, Revelation 6:16 , Dr. Lightfoot conjectures that the whole of that chapter may relate to the same event. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 23:26-32

On the way to Calvary. Simon the Cyrenian. The daughters of Jerusalem. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 23:26-46

The merciful Savior on the cross. Delivered unto the will of the Jews by the indecision of Pilate, Jesus accepts the cross, and proceeds under its crushing weight towards Calvary. But seeing him fainting under it, they press Simon the Cyrenian into service, and he has the everlasting honor of carrying the end of the beam after Jesus. Thus is it in all life's burdens—the weighty end of them is carried by the sympathetic Master, while the lighter end he allows his people to carry after him.... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 23:27-31

Sympathy and solicitude. Before reaching Calvary an interesting and instructive incident occurred. Among the tumultuous crowd that surged round the soldiers and their victims were many women. These were better away, we are disposed to think, from a scene so brutal and so harrowing as this. But we will believe that something better than curiosity, that gratitude, that affection, that womanly pity, drew them, spite of their natural shrinking, to this last sad ending. By whatever motives... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 23:30

Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us . The allusion, in the first place, was to the awful siege of Jerusalem and to the undreamed-of woes which would accompany it; and in the second place, to the centuries of misery and persecution to which the children of these "daughters of Jerusalem'' would, as Jews, be subjected in all lands. read more

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 23:30-31

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

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Luke 23:26-31

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Luke 23:26-31

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 23:30

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 23:30

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 23:26-32

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 23:26-46

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 23:27-31

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 23:30

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

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

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